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Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
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Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
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A New Day in Old Sana'a ''A New Day in Old Sana'a'' is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Bader Ben Hirsi, a United Kingdom, British playwright and director of Yemeni ancestry, and produced by Ahmed Abdali. It was shot in San‘a’, the capital of Yemen, and was th ...
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Greater Yemen Yemen Region ( ar, إقليم اليمن, Eglîm el-Yemen) also known as South Arabia is a geographic term denoting territories of historic South Arabia which included All lands between the Gulf of Oman in the east and the Red Sea in the west. I ...


Cities in Yemen

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Baraqish Barāqish or Barāgish or Aythel ( ar, براقش) is a town in north-western Yemen, 120 miles to the east of Sanaa in al Jawf Governorate on a high hill. It is located in Wādī Farda(h), a popular caravan route because of the presence of wat ...
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Al Bayda', Yemen Al Bayda ( ar, ٱلْبَيْضَاء, Al-Bayḍāʾ, not to be mixed with Al-Bayda' in Al-Jawf, the ancient ''Nashaq''), also transliterated as Baida, Al-Baidhah or Beida, is a town in the Governorate of Al-Bayda' in Yemen. It is located SE ...
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Beihan Beihan ( ar, بيحان), also known as Bayhan al Qisab (), is a town in western Yemen. The town had 13,234 inhabitants as of 2004. It was formerly the capital city of Emirate of Beihan, and today is the capital of Bayhan District in the Shabwah ...
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Dhamar, Yemen Dhamar ( ar, ذَمَار, Ḏamār; Old South Arabian: 𐩹𐩣𐩧 ''Ḏmr'') is a city in south-western Yemen. It is located at , at an elevation of around . Overview Dhamar is situated to the south of Sana'a, north of Ibb, and west of ...
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Al Ghaydah Al Ghaydah ( ar, الغيضة) is the capital city of Al Mahrah Governorate in south-eastern Yemen. Transport The city is served by Al Ghaydah Airport. Climate Al Ghaydah has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification The Köppen ...
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Hajjah Hajjah ( ar, حَجَّة, Ḥajjah) is the capital city of Hajjah Governorate in north-western Yemen. It is located 127 kilometres northwest of Sana'a, at an elevation of about 1800 metres. As of 2003, the Hajjah City District had a population ...
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Ibb Ibb ( ar, إِبّ, ʾIbb) is a city in Yemen, the capital of Ibb Governorate, located about northeast of Mocha and south of Sana'a. A market town and administrative centre developed during the Ottoman Empire, it is one of the most important ...
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Kawkaban Shibam Kawkaban ( ar, شبام كَوْكَبَان, Shibām Kawkabān) is a double town in Shibam Kawkaban District, Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, located 38 km west-northwest of Sanaa, the national capital. It consists of two distinct adjoin ...
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Lahij Lahij or Lahej ( ar, لحج, Laḥj, links=no), also called al-Hawtah, is a city and an area located between Ta'izz and Aden in Yemen. From the 18th to the 20th century, its rulers were of the Abdali branch of the Al-Sallami tribe who trace th ...
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Al Mahwit Al Mahwit ( ar, المحويت ''Al-Maḥwīt'') is the capital city of Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen. It is located at an elevation of about 2000 metres. History Al-Mahwit's development is fairly recent compared to some other Yemeni settlements ...
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Makram Makram ( ar, مكرم) is a coastal town on Kamaran Island in the Red Sea. It is situated in the Al Hudaydah Governorate of Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia ...
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Mocha, Yemen Mokha ( ar, المُخا, al-Mukhā), also spelled Mocha, or Mukha, is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. Until Aden and al Hudaydah eclipsed it in the 19th century, Mokha was the principal port for Yemen's capital, Sanaa. Long known fo ...
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Mukalla Mukalla ( ar, ٱلْمُكَلَّا, ') is a seaport and the capital city of Yemen's largest governorate, Hadhramaut. The city is in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula on the Gulf of Aden, on the shores of the Arabian Sea, about east o ...
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Mukayras Mukayras in Arabic مكيراس is a town and Directorate "مديرية" in Al Bayda Governorate, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the so ...
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Nishtun Nishtun ( ar, نشطون) is a coastal town in southeastern Yemen. It is located at around . Nishtun is one of Al Mahrah Governorate Al Mahrah ( ar, ٱلْمَهْرَة '), or simply Mahra, is a governorate (''muhafazah'') of Yemen in the s ...
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Qishn Qishn ( ar, قشن) is a coastal town in Al Mahrah Governorate, seat of Qishn District in southern Yemen. It is located at around . It has a landing strip, which is currently not in use. Historically, Qishn was a port from which incense was exp ...
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Sa'dah Saada ( ar, صَعْدَة, translit=Ṣaʿda), a city and ancient capital in the northwest of Yemen, is the capital and largest city of the province of the same name, and the county seat of the county of the same name. The city is located in the ...
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As Salif As-Salif ( ar, الصليف, , also transliterated as al-Salif) is a coastal village in western Yemen. It is located in a bay of a headland that forms the southern coast of the Kamaran Kamaran Island ( ar, كمران ''Kamarān'') is the larges ...
* San‘a’ * Sayfaf *
Seiyun Seiyun (also transliterated as ''Saywun'', ''Sayoun'' or ''Say'un''; ar, سَيْئُوْن  Hadhrami pronunciation: , Literary Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩪𐩺𐩱𐩬 ''S¹yʾn'') is a city in the region and Governorate of Hadh ...
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Shibam Shibam Hadramawt ( ar, شِبَام حَضْرَمَوْت, Shibām Ḥaḍramawt) is a town in Yemen. With about 7,000 inhabitants, it is the seat of the District of Shibam in the Governorate of Hadhramaut. Known for its mudbrick-made high-r ...
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Ash Shihr Ash-Shihr ( ar, ٱلشِّحْر, al-Shiḥr), also known as al-Shir or simply Shihr, is a coastal town in Hadhramaut, eastern Yemen. Ash-Shihr is a walled town located on a sandy beach. There is an anchorage but no docks; boats are used. The mai ...
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Shuqrah Shuqrah ( ar, شُقْرَة), also Shaqrāʾ ( ar, شَقْرَاء) or Shuqrāʾ ( ar, شُقْرَاء), is a coastal town in southern Yemen. It was the capital of the Fadhli Sultanate until the capital moved to Zinjibar in 1962, although the ...
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Ta'izz Taiz ( ar, تَعِزّ, Taʿizz) is a city in southwestern Yemen. It is located in the Yemeni Highlands, near the port city of Mocha on the Red Sea, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is the capital of Taiz Governorate. With a populat ...
* Tarim, Yemen * Thamud, Yemen * Yarim *
Zabid Zabid ( ar, زَبِيد) (also spelled Zabīd, Zabeed and Zebid) is a town with an urban population of around 52,590 people on Yemen's western coastal plain. It is one of the oldest towns in Yemen, and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since ...
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Zinjibar Zinjibar ( ar, زِنْجِبَار ''Zinjibār'') is a port and coastal town in south-central Yemen, the capital of Zinjibar District and the Abyan Governorate. It is located next to the Wadi Bana in the Abyan Delta. From 1962 to 1967, it was ...


Communications in Yemen

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Communications in Yemen Telecommunications in Yemen provides information about the telephone, Internet, radio, and television infrastructure in Yemen. Infrastructure Since unification in 1990, efforts have been made to create a national telecommunications network. The i ...
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Postage stamps and postal history of Aden Aden is a city in southern Yemen. Aden's location made it a popular exchange port for mail passing between places around the Indian Ocean and Europe. When Captain S. B. Haines of the Indian Marine, the East India Company's navy, occupied Aden on 19 ...
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.ye .ye is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol su ...


Yemeni culture


Yemeni architecture

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Architecture of Yemen The architecture of Yemen dates back to ancient times, when it was part of a tradition of South Arabian architecture. Developments continued during the Islamic period, displaying both local characteristics and external influences. The historic cit ...


Buildings and structures in Yemen


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Marib Dam The Marib Dam ( ar, سَدّ مَأْرِب ', or ar, سُدّ مَأْرِب ') is a modern dam blocking the ''Wadi'' or Valley of Adhanah (, also ''Dhanah'' ) in the Balaq Hills, located in the Ma'rib Governorate in Yemen. The current dam was ...


Theatre in Yemen


Yemeni cuisine

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Yemeni cuisine Yemeni cuisine is distinct from the wider Middle Eastern cuisines, but with a degree of regional variation. Although some foreign influences are evident in some regions of the country (with Ottoman influences showing in Sanaa, while Indian infl ...
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Lahoh Lahoh ( or , ar, لحوح, laḥūḥ, ) ), is a spongy, flat pancake-like bread that originated from Somalia.Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi, ''Culture and Customs of Somalis'', (Greenwood Press: 2001), p. 113. It is a type of flat bread eaten re ...
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Mandi (food) Mandi ( ar, مندي) is a traditional dish that originated from Hadhramaut, Yemen, consisting mainly of meat and rice with a special blend of spices, cooked in a pit underground. It is popular and commonly consumed in most areas of the Arabi ...
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Saltah Saltah (Arabic: سلتة) is a traditional Yemeni dish. ''Saltah'' is considered to be the national dish of Yemen. In the Ottoman Empire, ''saltah'' was used as a charitable food and was made with leftover food that was donated by the wealthy o ...
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Fahsa Fahsa ( ar, فحسة, Fahsa) is a Yemeni stew. It is made of lamb cutlets with lamb broth. Spices and hilbah (a dip made with fenugreek) are added after cooking. See also * List of lamb dishes * List of stews This is a list of notable stews ...
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Zhug Zhug ( he, סְחוּג, s'ḥug), sahawiq (Yemeni Arabic: ) or bisbas ( Somali: ) is a hot sauce originating in Yemeni cuisine. In other countries of the Arabian Peninsula it is also called ma'booj ( ar, معبوج}). Etymology The word ' ...
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Murtabak Motabbaq ( ar, مطبق) is a stuffed pancake or pan-fried bread which is commonly found in the Arabian Peninsula and Southeast Asia, notably in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Thailand and Bangladesh (Mughlai para ...


Languages of Yemen

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Hadhrami Arabic Hadhrami Arabic, or Ḥaḍrami Arabic (ḤA), is a variety of Arabic spoken by the Hadhrami people (''Ḥaḍārima'') living in the region of Hadhramaut in southeastern Yemen, western Oman and southern Saudi Arabia. It is also spoken by many em ...
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Mehri language Mehri or Mahri ( مهريّت ) is the most spoken of the Modern South Arabian languages (MSALs), a subgroup of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is spoken by the Mehri tribes, who inhabit isolated areas of the eastern part of Y ...
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Soqotri language Soqotri (also spelt Socotri, Sokotri, or Suqutri; autonym: ماتڸ دسقطري, ''mɛ́taḷ di-saḳɔ́ṭri''; , ''al-luḡah al-suquṭriyyah'') is a South Semitic language spoken by the Soqotri people on the island of Socotra and the two ...
* Hobyót language


Literature of Yemen

* Lost in a Fairy Tale


Yemeni music

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Music of Yemen Yemen is a country on the Arabian Peninsula, and the music of Yemen is primarily known abroad for a series of pan-Arab popular stars and the Yemenite Jews who became musical stars in Israel during the 20th century. In the Arab world, Yemen has lon ...
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National anthem of Yemen "United Republic" ( ar, الجمهورية المتحدة, al-Jomhuriyah al-Mottaḥedah) is the national anthem of Yemen. It was written by Abdollah Abdolwahâb Noʿmân and composed by ʾAyub Ṭâreš. The music was formerly used as the nation ...


Economy of Yemen

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Economy of Yemen The economy of Yemen has significantly weakened since the breakout of the Yemeni Civil War and the humanitarian crisis, which has caused instability, escalating hostilities, and flooding in the region. At the time of unification, South Yemen ...
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Water supply and sanitation in Yemen Water supply and sanitation in Yemen is characterized by many challenges as well as some achievements. A key challenge is severe water scarcity, especially in the Highlands, prompting '' The Times of London'' to write "Yemen could become the firs ...
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Yemeni buqsha A buqsha or bogache ( ''buqša'') is a former monetary unit of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and the Yemen Arab Republic. 40 buqshas make up one Yemeni rial. The buqsha coin itself is bronze and approximately 27 mm (1 inch) across. Mode ...
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Yemeni rial The rial ( ar, ريال يمني; sign: ﷼; abbreviation: YRl (singular) and YRls (plural) in Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect s ...
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Yemenia Yemenia ( ar, اليمنية) is the flag carrier airline of Yemen, based in Sanaa. It operates scheduled domestic and international passenger flights to destinations in Africa and the Middle East out of its hubs at Aden International Airport, ...


Trade unions of Yemen

* Yemeni Confederation of Labor Unions


Education in Yemen

* Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani


Schools in Yemen

* Sanaa International School


Universities and colleges in Yemen

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University of Aden The University of Aden is the first Yemeni university beside Sana'a university at the same year founded in the Republic of Yemen. History The foundation of the College of Education in 1970 and Nasser’s College for Agricultural Sciences in 1972 w ...
* Lebanese International University


Yemeni Organizations Outside Yemen

* AAYSP


Environment of Yemen


Conservation in Yemen


World Heritage Sites in Yemen

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Shibam Shibam Hadramawt ( ar, شِبَام حَضْرَمَوْت, Shibām Ḥaḍramawt) is a town in Yemen. With about 7,000 inhabitants, it is the seat of the District of Shibam in the Governorate of Hadhramaut. Known for its mudbrick-made high-r ...
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Zabid Zabid ( ar, زَبِيد) (also spelled Zabīd, Zabeed and Zebid) is a town with an urban population of around 52,590 people on Yemen's western coastal plain. It is one of the oldest towns in Yemen, and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since ...


Geography of Yemen

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Bab-el-Mandeb The Bab-el-Mandeb ( Arabic: , , ) is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. It connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. Name The strait derives its name from the dangers a ...
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Hadhramaut Hadhramaut ( ar, حَضْرَمَوْتُ \ حَضْرَمُوتُ, Ḥaḍramawt / Ḥaḍramūt; Hadramautic: 𐩢𐩳𐩧𐩣𐩩, ''Ḥḍrmt'') is a region in South Arabia, comprising eastern Yemen, parts of western Oman and southern Saud ...
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Bab Iskender The Bab Iskender ( '' Iskander's Strait'', also variously known as the Eastern strait, the small strait, the narrow pass or the small pass, is the eastern section of the Bab-el-Mandeb straits, which separates Ras Menheli, Yemen, on the Arabian P ...
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Ras Menheli Ras Menheli is a point in Yemen on the coast of Bab-el-Mandeb close to the island of Perim Perim ( ar, بريم 'Barīm'', also called Mayyun in Arabic, is a volcanic island in the Strait of Mandeb at the south entrance into the Red Sea, ...
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Tihamah Tihamah or Tihama ( ar, تِهَامَةُ ') refers to the Red Sea coastal plain of the Arabian Peninsula from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb. Etymology Tihāmat is the Proto-Semitic language's term for ' sea'. Tiamat (or Tehom, in m ...
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Islands of Yemen

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Hanish Islands The Hanish Islands ( ar, جزر حنيش, ) is an archipelago in the Red Sea consisting of a trio of major islands at the centre of an array of smaller islets and rocks. The three major islands are the northern Zuqar Island, the southern Great ...
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Kamaran Kamaran Island ( ar, كمران ''Kamarān'') is the largest Yemeni island in the Red Sea. The island is long and wide and is strategically located at the southern end of the Red Sea. It is a "shelf island" located in the shallow waters of the ...
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Perim Perim ( ar, بريم 'Barīm'', also called Mayyun in Arabic, is a volcanic island in the Strait of Mandeb at the south entrance into the Red Sea, off the south-west coast of Yemen and belonging to Yemen. It administratively belongs to Dhub ...
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Socotra Socotra or Soqotra (; ar, سُقُطْرَىٰ ; so, Suqadara) is an island of the Republic of Yemen in the Indian Ocean, under the ''de facto'' control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, a secessionist participant in Yemen’ ...


Maps of Yemen


Mountains of Yemen

* Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb


Volcanoes of Yemen

* Jabal al-Tair


Yemen geography stubs

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'Amran Governorate ʽAmran ( ar, عمران, ʽAmrān) is one of the governorates of Yemen. Districts 'Amran Governorate is divided into the following 20 districts. These districts are further divided into sub-districts, and then further subdivided into villa ...
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Abyan Governorate Abyan ( ar, أَبْيَن ) is a governorate of Yemen. The Abyan region was historically part of the Fadhli Sultanate. It was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army militant group. Its capital is the city of Zinjibar. This governorate is no ...
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Ad Dali' Governorate Dhale ( ar, الضالع ') is one of the Yemeni governorates that was created after the unification of Yemen. The population of the province accounts for 2% of the total population of the republic.Central Statistical Organisation of Yemen.Stati ...
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Al Bayda', Yemen Al Bayda ( ar, ٱلْبَيْضَاء, Al-Bayḍāʾ, not to be mixed with Al-Bayda' in Al-Jawf, the ancient ''Nashaq''), also transliterated as Baida, Al-Baidhah or Beida, is a town in the Governorate of Al-Bayda' in Yemen. It is located SE ...
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Al Ghaydah Al Ghaydah ( ar, الغيضة) is the capital city of Al Mahrah Governorate in south-eastern Yemen. Transport The city is served by Al Ghaydah Airport. Climate Al Ghaydah has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification The Köppen ...
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Al Hudaydah Governorate Al Hudaydah ( ar, الْحُدَيْدَة, Al Ḥudaida) is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Al Hudaydah. The governorate is also sometimes referred to as the Western Coast. This governorate borders the Red Sea and is part of the narrow Ti ...
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Al Mahrah Governorate Al Mahrah ( ar, ٱلْمَهْرَة '), or simply Mahra, is a governorate ('' muhafazah'') of Yemen in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula. Situated in the area of the former Mahra Sultanate, its capital is Al Ghaydah, and it has intern ...
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Al Mahwit Al Mahwit ( ar, المحويت ''Al-Maḥwīt'') is the capital city of Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen. It is located at an elevation of about 2000 metres. History Al-Mahwit's development is fairly recent compared to some other Yemeni settlements ...
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Al Mahwit Governorate Al Mahwit ( ar, ٱلْمَحْوِيْت ') is one of the governorates of Yemen. Districts Al Mahwit Governorate is divided into the following 9 districts. These districts are further divided into sub-districts, and then further subdivided int ...
* Al Marqab, Yemen *
Mukalla Mukalla ( ar, ٱلْمُكَلَّا, ') is a seaport and the capital city of Yemen's largest governorate, Hadhramaut. The city is in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula on the Gulf of Aden, on the shores of the Arabian Sea, about east o ...
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Alawi (sheikhdom) The Alawi Sheikhdom ( ar, مشيخة العلوي '), or Alawi ( ar, علوي ') — was a Sheikhdom located in the Aden region of southwestern Yemen. Its capital was Al Qasha. The state was abolished in 1967 with the independence of the People ...
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Aqrabi ‘Aqrabi ( '), or the Aqrabi Sheikhdom ( '), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Bir Ahmad. The state was abolished in 196 ...
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As Salif As-Salif ( ar, الصليف, , also transliterated as al-Salif) is a coastal village in western Yemen. It is located in a bay of a headland that forms the southern coast of the Kamaran Kamaran Island ( ar, كمران ''Kamarān'') is the larges ...
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Ash Shihr Ash-Shihr ( ar, ٱلشِّحْر, al-Shiḥr), also known as al-Shir or simply Shihr, is a coastal town in Hadhramaut, eastern Yemen. Ash-Shihr is a walled town located on a sandy beach. There is an anchorage but no docks; boats are used. The mai ...
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Audhali Audhali ( ' or '), or the Audhali Sultanate ( ar, سلطنة العوذلي '), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. It was a founding member of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South in 1959 and its successor, the Federation of Sou ...
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Bab Iskender The Bab Iskender ( '' Iskander's Strait'', also variously known as the Eastern strait, the small strait, the narrow pass or the small pass, is the eastern section of the Bab-el-Mandeb straits, which separates Ras Menheli, Yemen, on the Arabian P ...
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Baraqish Barāqish or Barāgish or Aythel ( ar, براقش) is a town in north-western Yemen, 120 miles to the east of Sanaa in al Jawf Governorate on a high hill. It is located in Wādī Farda(h), a popular caravan route because of the presence of wat ...
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Cheikh Saïd Cheikh Said (frequently spelled Sheikh Said) is a rocky peninsula in Yemen, near the island of Perim on the Bab-el-Mandeb at the entrance to the Red Sea. In 1868 it was purchased from the local ruler, Sheikh Ali Tabet Ahmed, by Bazin et Rabaud, ...
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Dathina Dathina ( '), the Dathina Sheikhdom ( ar, مشيخة دثينة '), or sometimes the Dathina Confederation, was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arab ...
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Dhamar, Yemen Dhamar ( ar, ذَمَار, Ḏamār; Old South Arabian: 𐩹𐩣𐩧 ''Ḏmr'') is a city in south-western Yemen. It is located at , at an elevation of around . Overview Dhamar is situated to the south of Sana'a, north of Ibb, and west of ...
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Emirate of Beihan Beihan or Bayhan ( '), officially the Emirate of Beihan ( '), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate and the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Suq Abdulla, now called Beihan. The Emirate was abolished in 1967 upon the founding ...
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Emirate of Dhala Dhala or Dhali` ( '), Amiri ( '), or the Emirate of Dhala ( ') was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Dhala (Ad Dali'). Histor ...
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Fadhli Sultanate Fadhli ( ar, فضلي '), or the Fadhli Sultanate ( ar, السلطنة الفضلية '), was an independent sultanate on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula from the 17th century until 1967.
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Federation of Arab Emirates of the South __NOTOC__ The Federation of the Emirates of the South ( ar, اتحاد إمارات الجنوب العربي ''Ittiḥād ʾImārāt al-Janūb al-ʿArabiyy'') was an organization of states within the British Aden Protectorate in what would b ...
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Hadhramaut Governorate Hadhramaut or Hadramawt or Hadramout ( ar, حضرموت ''Ḥaḍramawt'') is a governorate of Yemen. Lying within the large historical region of Hadhramaut, it is the country's largest governorate. The capital of Hadhramut is the city of Muk ...
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Hajjah Hajjah ( ar, حَجَّة, Ḥajjah) is the capital city of Hajjah Governorate in north-western Yemen. It is located 127 kilometres northwest of Sana'a, at an elevation of about 1800 metres. As of 2003, the Hajjah City District had a population ...
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Hajjah Governorate Hajjah ( ar, حجة, Ḥaǧǧa) is a governorate of Yemen. Bordered by the Red Sea, it has its capital in Hajjah. Districts Hajjah Governorate is divided into the following 31 districts. These districts are further divided into sub-districts, an ...
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Hanish Islands The Hanish Islands ( ar, جزر حنيش, ) is an archipelago in the Red Sea consisting of a trio of major islands at the centre of an array of smaller islets and rocks. The three major islands are the northern Zuqar Island, the southern Great ...
* Haushabi Sultanate *
Havilah Havilah ( ''Ḥăwīlāh'') refers to both a land and people in several books of the Bible; the one mentioned in , while the other is mentioned in . Biblical mentions In one case, Havilah is associated with the Garden of Eden, that mentioned in ...
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Himyar The Himyarite Kingdom ( ar, مملكة حِمْيَر, Mamlakat Ḥimyar, he, ממלכת חִמְיָר), or Himyar ( ar, حِمْيَر, ''Ḥimyar'', / 𐩹𐩧𐩺𐩵𐩬) (fl. 110 BCE–520s CE), historically referred to as the Homerite ...
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Ibb Ibb ( ar, إِبّ, ʾIbb) is a city in Yemen, the capital of Ibb Governorate, located about northeast of Mocha and south of Sana'a. A market town and administrative centre developed during the Ottoman Empire, it is one of the most important ...
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Kamaran Kamaran Island ( ar, كمران ''Kamarān'') is the largest Yemeni island in the Red Sea. The island is long and wide and is strategically located at the southern end of the Red Sea. It is a "shelf island" located in the shallow waters of the ...
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Kathiri Kathiri ( ar, ٱلْكَثِيْرِي, al-Kathīrī), officially the Kathiri State of Seiyun ( ar, ٱلسَّلْطَنَة ٱلْكَثِيْرِيَّة - سَيْؤُوْن, al-Salṭanah al-Kathīrīyah - Sayʾūn), was a sultanate in the ...
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Kawkaban Shibam Kawkaban ( ar, شبام كَوْكَبَان, Shibām Kawkabān) is a double town in Shibam Kawkaban District, Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, located 38 km west-northwest of Sanaa, the national capital. It consists of two distinct adjoin ...
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Lahej Sultanate Lahej ( ar, لحج '), the Sultanate of Lahej ( ar, سلطنة لحج '), or, sometimes, the Abdali Sultanate ( ar, سلطنة العبدلي '')'', was a Sheikdom based in Lahij in Southern Arabia. The Sultanate became self-ruling in 1728 and ga ...
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Lahij Lahij or Lahej ( ar, لحج, Laḥj, links=no), also called al-Hawtah, is a city and an area located between Ta'izz and Aden in Yemen. From the 18th to the 20th century, its rulers were of the Abdali branch of the Al-Sallami tribe who trace th ...
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Lahij Governorate Lahij ( ar, لحج ) is a governorate of Yemen. In 2015, the Governorate was subject to the Lahij insurgency, which was part of the Yemeni Civil War. Districts Lahij Governorate is divided into the following 15 districts. These districts are f ...
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Lower Yafa Lower Yafa, Lower Yafa'i ( '), or the Sultanate of Lower Yafa ( ar, سلطنة يافع السفلى ''),'' was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. Lower Yafa was ruled by the Al Afifi dynasty and its capital was at Jaar. This former sult ...
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Ma'rib Governorate Marib ( ar, مَأْرِب, Maʾrib) is a governorate of Yemen. It is located 173 kilometers to the northeast of Yemen's capital, Sana'a. The population of Marib Governorate comprises 1.2% of the country's total population. The city of Marib is ...
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Maflahi Muflihi, Muflahi ( '), Muflihi or the Muflahi Sheikhdom ( '), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. Its last sheikh, Kassim Abdulrahaman Al-Muflihi, was deposed in 1967 upon the founding of the People's Republic of South Yemen and the area ...
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Mahra Sultanate The Mahra Sultanate, known in its later years as the Mahra State of Qishn and Socotra ( ar, الدولة المهرية للبر وسقطرى ') or sometimes the Mahra Sultanate of Ghayda and Socotra ( ar, سلطنة المهرة في الغيض ...
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Makram Makram ( ar, مكرم) is a coastal town on Kamaran Island in the Red Sea. It is situated in the Al Hudaydah Governorate of Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia ...
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Mukayras Mukayras in Arabic مكيراس is a town and Directorate "مديرية" in Al Bayda Governorate, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the so ...
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Nishtun Nishtun ( ar, نشطون) is a coastal town in southeastern Yemen. It is located at around . Nishtun is one of Al Mahrah Governorate Al Mahrah ( ar, ٱلْمَهْرَة '), or simply Mahra, is a governorate (''muhafazah'') of Yemen in the s ...
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Protectorate of South Arabia The Protectorate of South Arabia consisted of various states located at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula under treaties of protection with Britain. The area of the former protectorate became part of South Yemen after the Radfan upri ...
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Qishn Qishn ( ar, قشن) is a coastal town in Al Mahrah Governorate, seat of Qishn District in southern Yemen. It is located at around . It has a landing strip, which is currently not in use. Historically, Qishn was a port from which incense was exp ...
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Qu'aiti Qu'aiti, ar, ٱلْقُعَيْطِي '), officially the Qu'aiti State of Shihr and Mukalla ( ar, ٱلدَّوْلَة ٱلْقُعَيْطِيَّة ٱلْحَضْرَمِيَّة, Ad-Dawlah Al-Quʿayṭiyyah Al-Ḥaḍramiyyah or the Qu'aiti ...
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Radfan Radfan or the Radfan Hills is a region of the Republic of Yemen. In the 1960s, the area was part of a British protectorate of Dhala (a member of the Federation of South Arabia) and was the site of intense fighting during the Aden Emergency. In 1 ...
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Ras Menheli Ras Menheli is a point in Yemen on the coast of Bab-el-Mandeb close to the island of Perim Perim ( ar, بريم 'Barīm'', also called Mayyun in Arabic, is a volcanic island in the Strait of Mandeb at the south entrance into the Red Sea, ...
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Sa'dah Saada ( ar, صَعْدَة, translit=Ṣaʿda), a city and ancient capital in the northwest of Yemen, is the capital and largest city of the province of the same name, and the county seat of the county of the same name. The city is located in the ...
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Sa'dah Governorate Saada ( ar, صَعْدَة, Ṣaʿdah) is one of the governorates of Yemen. The governorate's seat and the largest city is Saada. It is the epicentre of Zaydism
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Seiyun Seiyun (also transliterated as ''Saywun'', ''Sayoun'' or ''Say'un''; ar, سَيْئُوْن  Hadhrami pronunciation: , Literary Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩪𐩺𐩱𐩬 ''S¹yʾn'') is a city in the region and Governorate of Hadh ...
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Shaib Shaib or Sha‘ib ( ar, شعيب '), or the Sheikhdom of Shaib ( ar, مشيخة الشعيب '), was a state in the Aden Protectorate, South Arabia. The area is now part of the Republic of Yemen. History The Sha`ib Sheikhdom was established at an ...
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Shibam Shibam Hadramawt ( ar, شِبَام حَضْرَمَوْت, Shibām Ḥaḍramawt) is a town in Yemen. With about 7,000 inhabitants, it is the seat of the District of Shibam in the Governorate of Hadhramaut. Known for its mudbrick-made high-r ...
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Shuqrah Shuqrah ( ar, شُقْرَة), also Shaqrāʾ ( ar, شَقْرَاء) or Shuqrāʾ ( ar, شُقْرَاء), is a coastal town in southern Yemen. It was the capital of the Fadhli Sultanate until the capital moved to Zinjibar in 1962, although the ...
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Ta'izz Taiz ( ar, تَعِزّ, Taʿizz) is a city in southwestern Yemen. It is located in the Yemeni Highlands, near the port city of Mocha on the Red Sea, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is the capital of Taiz Governorate. With a populat ...
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Tihamah Tihamah or Tihama ( ar, تِهَامَةُ ') refers to the Red Sea coastal plain of the Arabian Peninsula from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb. Etymology Tihāmat is the Proto-Semitic language's term for ' sea'. Tiamat (or Tehom, in m ...
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Timna Timna ( Qatabānic: , romanized: , ; ar, تمنع, translit=Timnaʿ) is an ancient city in Yemen, the capital of the Qataban kingdom; it is distinct from a valley in southern Israel that shares the same name. During ancient times, Timna was an ...
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United Arab States The United Arab States (UAS, ar, الدول العربية المتحدة) was a short-lived confederation of the United Arab Republic ( Egypt and Syria) and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (North Yemen) from 1958 to 1961. The United Ara ...
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Upper Yafa Upper Yafa or Upper Yafa'i ( ar, يافع العليا ''),'' officially State of Upper Yafa ( ar, دولة يافع العليا '')'', was a military alliance in the British Aden Protectorate and the Protectorate of South Arabia. It was rul ...
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Wahidi Balhaf Wahidi Balhaf ( '), or the Wahidi Sultanate of Balhaf in Hadhramaut ( ar, سلطنة الواحدي في بالحاف '), was one of several Wahidi states in the British Aden Protectorate. It was previously part of the Federation of Arab Emirat ...
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Wahidi Haban Wahidi Habban ( '), or the Wahidi Sultanate of Habban in Hadhramaut ( ar, سلطنة الواحدي حبان حضرموت '), was one of several Wahidi states in the British Aden Protectorate. Its capital was Habban. The last sultan, Husayn ibn ...
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Zabid Zabid ( ar, زَبِيد) (also spelled Zabīd, Zabeed and Zebid) is a town with an urban population of around 52,590 people on Yemen's western coastal plain. It is one of the oldest towns in Yemen, and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since ...
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Zinjibar Zinjibar ( ar, زِنْجِبَار ''Zinjibār'') is a port and coastal town in south-central Yemen, the capital of Zinjibar District and the Abyan Governorate. It is located next to the Wadi Bana in the Abyan Delta. From 1962 to 1967, it was ...
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Yemeni society

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Demographics of Yemen This article is about the demographic features of the population of Yemen ( ar, سكان اليمن), including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of th ...
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Arab Tribes of Yemen

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Qahtanite The terms Qahtanite and Qahtani ( ar, قَحْطَانِي; transliterated: Qaḥṭānī) refer to Arabs who originate from South Arabia. The term "Qahtan" is mentioned in multiple ancient Arabian inscriptions found in Yemen. Arab traditions b ...
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Ba'Alawi The Ba'Alawi tariqa ( ar, طريقة آل باعلوي), also known as the Tariqa Alawiyya is a Sufi order centered in Hadhramawt, Yemen, but now spread across the Indian Ocean rim along with the Hadhrami diaspora. The order is closely tie ...
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Banu Tamim Banū Tamīm ( ar, بَنُو تَمِيم) is an Arab tribe that originated in Najd in the Arabian Peninsula. It is mainly present in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria, and has a strong presence in Morocco, Palestine, Tuni ...


Government of Yemen

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Human rights in Yemen Human rights in Yemen are seen as problematic. The security forces have been responsible for torture, inhumane treatment and even extrajudicial executions. In recent years there has been some improvement, with the government signing several intern ...
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President of Yemen Arab Republic The President of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of state in the former North Yemen from 1962 to 1990. There were six presidents of North Yemen. List of Presidents of the Yemen Arab Republic (1962–1990) For presidents of Yemen after 199 ...
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List of presidents of Yemen The president of the Republic of Yemen is the head of state of Yemen. Under the Constitution of Yemen, the president is also the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and head of the executive branch of the Yemeni government. As of 7 April 20 ...
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Prime Minister of South Yemen The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (commonly referred to as South Yemen) became independent as the People's Republic of South Yemen in November 1967, after the British withdrawal from the Federation of South Arabia and the Protectorate o ...
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Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic The prime minister of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of government of that country in what is now northern Yemen. The Prime Minister was appointed by the President. There were twelve prime ministers of North Yemen. List of prime ministers ...
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Foreign relations of Yemen


Governorates of Yemen

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Abyan Governorate Abyan ( ar, أَبْيَن ) is a governorate of Yemen. The Abyan region was historically part of the Fadhli Sultanate. It was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army militant group. Its capital is the city of Zinjibar. This governorate is no ...
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Ad Dali' Governorate Dhale ( ar, الضالع ') is one of the Yemeni governorates that was created after the unification of Yemen. The population of the province accounts for 2% of the total population of the republic.Central Statistical Organisation of Yemen.Stati ...
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Al Hudaydah Governorate Al Hudaydah ( ar, الْحُدَيْدَة, Al Ḥudaida) is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Al Hudaydah. The governorate is also sometimes referred to as the Western Coast. This governorate borders the Red Sea and is part of the narrow Ti ...
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Al Mahrah Governorate Al Mahrah ( ar, ٱلْمَهْرَة '), or simply Mahra, is a governorate ('' muhafazah'') of Yemen in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula. Situated in the area of the former Mahra Sultanate, its capital is Al Ghaydah, and it has intern ...
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Al Mahwit Governorate Al Mahwit ( ar, ٱلْمَحْوِيْت ') is one of the governorates of Yemen. Districts Al Mahwit Governorate is divided into the following 9 districts. These districts are further divided into sub-districts, and then further subdivided int ...
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'Amran Governorate ʽAmran ( ar, عمران, ʽAmrān) is one of the governorates of Yemen. Districts 'Amran Governorate is divided into the following 20 districts. These districts are further divided into sub-districts, and then further subdivided into villa ...
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Dhamar Governorate Dhamar ( ar, ذَمَار, Ḏamār), also spelt ''Thamar'', is a governorate of Yemen. It is located to the south and southeast of Sana'a Governorate, to the north of Ibb Governorate, to the east of Al Hudaydah Governorate and to the northwest o ...
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Hadhramaut Governorate Hadhramaut or Hadramawt or Hadramout ( ar, حضرموت ''Ḥaḍramawt'') is a governorate of Yemen. Lying within the large historical region of Hadhramaut, it is the country's largest governorate. The capital of Hadhramut is the city of Muk ...
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Hajjah Governorate Hajjah ( ar, حجة, Ḥaǧǧa) is a governorate of Yemen. Bordered by the Red Sea, it has its capital in Hajjah. Districts Hajjah Governorate is divided into the following 31 districts. These districts are further divided into sub-districts, an ...
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Ibb Governorate Ibb ( ar, إِبّ ') is a governorate of Yemen. It is located in the inland south of the country with Ta'izz Governorate to the southwest, Ad Dali' Governorate to the southeast, Dhamar Governorate to the north, and short borders with Al Bayda' ...
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Lahij Governorate Lahij ( ar, لحج ) is a governorate of Yemen. In 2015, the Governorate was subject to the Lahij insurgency, which was part of the Yemeni Civil War. Districts Lahij Governorate is divided into the following 15 districts. These districts are f ...
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Ma'rib Governorate Marib ( ar, مَأْرِب, Maʾrib) is a governorate of Yemen. It is located 173 kilometers to the northeast of Yemen's capital, Sana'a. The population of Marib Governorate comprises 1.2% of the country's total population. The city of Marib is ...
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Sa'dah Governorate Saada ( ar, صَعْدَة, Ṣaʿdah) is one of the governorates of Yemen. The governorate's seat and the largest city is Saada. It is the epicentre of Zaydism
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Ta'izz Governorate Taiz ( ar, تَعِزّ, Taʿizz) is a governorate of Yemen. The governorate's capital is Taiz, which is the third largest city in Yemen. Today it is the most important commercial centre in Yemen owing to its proximity to the richest farmland in ...
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History of Yemen The history of Yemen describes the cultures, events, and peoples of what is one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Its relatively fertile land and adequate rainfall in a moister climate helped sustain a stable population, a ...
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Aden Protectorate The Aden Protectorate ( ar, محمية عدن ') was a British protectorate in South Arabia which evolved in the hinterland of the port of Aden and in the Hadhramaut following the conquest of Aden by the Bombay Presidency of British India ...
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Adnan Adnan ( ar, عدنان, 'adnān) is the traditional ancestor of the Adnanite Arabs of Northern, Western, Eastern and Central Arabia, as opposed to the Qahtanite Arabs of Southern Arabia who descend from Qahtan. His ancestry can be traced back t ...
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Al-Hurra Al-Malika ) , name = Arwā bint Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Mūsā Aṣ-Ṣulayḥī , other_names = ''As-Sayyidah Al-Ḥurrah'' () ''Al-Malikah Al-Ḥurrah'' ( ar, ٱلْمَلِكَة ٱلْحُرَّة or ...
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Alawi (sheikhdom) The Alawi Sheikhdom ( ar, مشيخة العلوي '), or Alawi ( ar, علوي ') — was a Sheikhdom located in the Aden region of southwestern Yemen. Its capital was Al Qasha. The state was abolished in 1967 with the independence of the People ...
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Ancient history of Yemen The ancient history of Yemen (South Arabia) is especially important because Yemen is one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Its relatively fertile land and adequate rainfall in a moister climate helped sustain a stable po ...
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Aqrabi ‘Aqrabi ( '), or the Aqrabi Sheikhdom ( '), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Bir Ahmad. The state was abolished in 196 ...
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Audhali Audhali ( ' or '), or the Audhali Sultanate ( ar, سلطنة العوذلي '), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. It was a founding member of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South in 1959 and its successor, the Federation of Sou ...
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Cheikh Saïd Cheikh Said (frequently spelled Sheikh Said) is a rocky peninsula in Yemen, near the island of Perim on the Bab-el-Mandeb at the entrance to the Red Sea. In 1868 it was purchased from the local ruler, Sheikh Ali Tabet Ahmed, by Bazin et Rabaud, ...
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Dathina Dathina ( '), the Dathina Sheikhdom ( ar, مشيخة دثينة '), or sometimes the Dathina Confederation, was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arab ...
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Democratic Republic of Yemen The Democratic Republic of Yemen ( '), colloquially known as South Yemen, was a breakaway state that fought against Yemen Arab Republic in the 1994 Yemeni Civil War. It was declared in May 1994 and covered all of the former South Yemen. Th ...
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Dhu Nuwas Dhū Nuwās, ( ar, ذُو نُوَاس), real name "Yūsuf Asʾar Yathʾar" ( Musnad: 𐩺𐩥𐩪𐩰 𐩱𐩪𐩱𐩧 𐩺𐩻𐩱𐩧, ''Yws¹f ʾs¹ʾr Yṯʾr''), "Yosef Nu'as" ( he, יוסף נואס), or "Yūsuf ibn Sharhabīl" ( ar, يُ ...
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Emblem of Yemen The national emblem of Yemen depicts a golden eagle of Saladin with a scroll between its claws. On the scroll is written the name of the country in ar, الجمهورية اليمنية or ("The Yemeni Republic"). The chest of the eagle contai ...
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Emirate of Beihan Beihan or Bayhan ( '), officially the Emirate of Beihan ( '), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate and the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Suq Abdulla, now called Beihan. The Emirate was abolished in 1967 upon the founding ...
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Emirate of Dhala Dhala or Dhali` ( '), Amiri ( '), or the Emirate of Dhala ( ') was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Dhala (Ad Dali'). Histor ...
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Fadhli Sultanate Fadhli ( ar, فضلي '), or the Fadhli Sultanate ( ar, السلطنة الفضلية '), was an independent sultanate on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula from the 17th century until 1967.
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Federation of Arab Emirates of the South __NOTOC__ The Federation of the Emirates of the South ( ar, اتحاد إمارات الجنوب العربي ''Ittiḥād ʾImārāt al-Janūb al-ʿArabiyy'') was an organization of states within the British Aden Protectorate in what would b ...
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Federation of South Arabia The Federation of South Arabia ( ar, اتحاد الجنوب العربي ') was a federal state under British protection in what would become South Yemen. Its capital was Aden. It was formed on 4 April 1962 from the 15 protected states of ...
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Flag of Yemen The flag of Yemen ( ''Alam al-Yaman'') was adopted on May 22, 1990, the day that North Yemen and South Yemen were unified. The flag is essentially the Arab Liberation Flag of 1952, introduced after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 in which Arab ...
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Greater Yemen Yemen Region ( ar, إقليم اليمن, Eglîm el-Yemen) also known as South Arabia is a geographic term denoting territories of historic South Arabia which included All lands between the Gulf of Oman in the east and the Red Sea in the west. I ...
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Hadhramaut Hadhramaut ( ar, حَضْرَمَوْتُ \ حَضْرَمُوتُ, Ḥaḍramawt / Ḥaḍramūt; Hadramautic: 𐩢𐩳𐩧𐩣𐩩, ''Ḥḍrmt'') is a region in South Arabia, comprising eastern Yemen, parts of western Oman and southern Saud ...
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Himyar The Himyarite Kingdom ( ar, مملكة حِمْيَر, Mamlakat Ḥimyar, he, ממלכת חִמְיָר), or Himyar ( ar, حِمْيَر, ''Ḥimyar'', / 𐩹𐩧𐩺𐩵𐩬) (fl. 110 BCE–520s CE), historically referred to as the Homerite ...
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Imams of Yemen The Imams of Yemen, later also titled the Kings of Yemen, were religiously consecrated leaders belonging to the Zaidiyyah branch of Shia Islam. They established a blend of religious and temporal-political rule in parts of Yemen from 897. Their i ...
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Islamic history of Yemen Islam came to Yemen around 630 during Muhammad's lifetime and the rule of the Persian governor Badhan. Thereafter, Yemen was ruled as part of Arab-Islamic caliphates, and became a province in the Islamic empire. Regimes affiliated to the Egypti ...
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Kathiri Kathiri ( ar, ٱلْكَثِيْرِي, al-Kathīrī), officially the Kathiri State of Seiyun ( ar, ٱلسَّلْطَنَة ٱلْكَثِيْرِيَّة - سَيْؤُوْن, al-Salṭanah al-Kathīrīyah - Sayʾūn), was a sultanate in the ...
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Kingdom of Awsan The ancient Kingdom of Awsān ({{Lang-ar, مملكة أوسان) in South Arabia, modern-day Yemen, with a capital at Ḥajar Yaḥirr in Wādī Markhah, to the south of Wādī Bayḥān, is now marked by a tell or artificial mound, which is loca ...
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Lahej Sultanate Lahej ( ar, لحج '), the Sultanate of Lahej ( ar, سلطنة لحج '), or, sometimes, the Abdali Sultanate ( ar, سلطنة العبدلي '')'', was a Sheikdom based in Lahij in Southern Arabia. The Sultanate became self-ruling in 1728 and ga ...
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List of rulers of Saba and Himyar This is a list of rulers of Saba and Himyar. Mukarrib (Mukrab, Karab), a religious title that means "near to God", was used by rulers of Saba' until Karib'il Watar changed his title to ''Malik'' at the time of the kingdom of Saba' and Dhu Rayda ...
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Lower Yafa Lower Yafa, Lower Yafa'i ( '), or the Sultanate of Lower Yafa ( ar, سلطنة يافع السفلى ''),'' was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. Lower Yafa was ruled by the Al Afifi dynasty and its capital was at Jaar. This former sult ...
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Maflahi Muflihi, Muflahi ( '), Muflihi or the Muflahi Sheikhdom ( '), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. Its last sheikh, Kassim Abdulrahaman Al-Muflihi, was deposed in 1967 upon the founding of the People's Republic of South Yemen and the area ...
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Mahra Sultanate The Mahra Sultanate, known in its later years as the Mahra State of Qishn and Socotra ( ar, الدولة المهرية للبر وسقطرى ') or sometimes the Mahra Sultanate of Ghayda and Socotra ( ar, سلطنة المهرة في الغيض ...
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Marib Dam The Marib Dam ( ar, سَدّ مَأْرِب ', or ar, سُدّ مَأْرِب ') is a modern dam blocking the ''Wadi'' or Valley of Adhanah (, also ''Dhanah'' ) in the Balaq Hills, located in the Ma'rib Governorate in Yemen. The current dam was ...
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Minaeans The Minaean people were the inhabitants of the kingdom of Ma'in ( Minaean: ''Maʿīn''; modern Arabic ''Maʿīn'') in modern-day Yemen, dating back to the 10th century BCE-150 BCE. It was located along the strip of desert called Ṣayhad ...
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Modern history of Yemen The modern history of Yemen began with the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire. In 1839 the British set up a protective area around the southern port of Aden and in 1918 the northern Kingdom of Yemen gained independence from the Ottoman Empire. Nor ...
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North Yemen Civil War The North Yemen Civil War ( ar, ثورة 26 سبتمبر, Thawra 26 Sabtambar, 26 September Revolution) was fought in North Yemen from 1962 to 1970 between partisans of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom and supporters of the Yemen Arab Republic. The ...
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Postage stamps and postal history of Aden Aden is a city in southern Yemen. Aden's location made it a popular exchange port for mail passing between places around the Indian Ocean and Europe. When Captain S. B. Haines of the Indian Marine, the East India Company's navy, occupied Aden on 19 ...
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President of Yemen Arab Republic The President of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of state in the former North Yemen from 1962 to 1990. There were six presidents of North Yemen. List of Presidents of the Yemen Arab Republic (1962–1990) For presidents of Yemen after 199 ...
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List of Presidents of Yemen The president of the Republic of Yemen is the head of state of Yemen. Under the Constitution of Yemen, the president is also the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and head of the executive branch of the Yemeni government. As of 7 April 20 ...
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Prime Minister of South Yemen The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (commonly referred to as South Yemen) became independent as the People's Republic of South Yemen in November 1967, after the British withdrawal from the Federation of South Arabia and the Protectorate o ...
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Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic The prime minister of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of government of that country in what is now northern Yemen. The Prime Minister was appointed by the President. There were twelve prime ministers of North Yemen. List of prime ministers ...
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Protectorate of South Arabia The Protectorate of South Arabia consisted of various states located at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula under treaties of protection with Britain. The area of the former protectorate became part of South Yemen after the Radfan upri ...
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Qahtanite The terms Qahtanite and Qahtani ( ar, قَحْطَانِي; transliterated: Qaḥṭānī) refer to Arabs who originate from South Arabia. The term "Qahtan" is mentioned in multiple ancient Arabian inscriptions found in Yemen. Arab traditions b ...
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Qu'aiti Qu'aiti, ar, ٱلْقُعَيْطِي '), officially the Qu'aiti State of Shihr and Mukalla ( ar, ٱلدَّوْلَة ٱلْقُعَيْطِيَّة ٱلْحَضْرَمِيَّة, Ad-Dawlah Al-Quʿayṭiyyah Al-Ḥaḍramiyyah or the Qu'aiti ...
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Qutaibi Qutaibi ( ar, قطيبي ') or the Qutaibi Sheikhdom ( ar, مشيخة القطيبي ') was a polity in the western Aden Protectorate. It was a dependency of the Emirate of Dhala and is now part of the Republic of Yemen. In 1964, during the Ade ...
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Radfan Radfan or the Radfan Hills is a region of the Republic of Yemen. In the 1960s, the area was part of a British protectorate of Dhala (a member of the Federation of South Arabia) and was the site of intense fighting during the Aden Emergency. In 1 ...
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Sabaean language Sabaean, also known as Sabaic, was an Old South Arabian language spoken between c. 1000 BC and the 6th century AD, by the Sabaeans. It was used as a written language by some other peoples of the ancient civilization of South Arabia, including t ...
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Sabaeans The Sabaeans or Sabeans ( Sabaean:, ; ar, ٱلسَّبَئِيُّوْن, ''as-Sabaʾiyyūn''; he, סְבָאִים, Səḇāʾīm) were an ancient group of South Arabians. They spoke the Sabaean language, one of the Old South Arabian langu ...
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Shaib Shaib or Sha‘ib ( ar, شعيب '), or the Sheikhdom of Shaib ( ar, مشيخة الشعيب '), was a state in the Aden Protectorate, South Arabia. The area is now part of the Republic of Yemen. History The Sha`ib Sheikhdom was established at an ...
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South Arabian alphabet The Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 ''ms3nd''; modern ar, الْمُسْنَد ''musnad'') branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the late 2nd millennium BCE. It was used for writing the Old Sou ...
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South Yemeni dinar The dinar ( ar, دينار) ( ar, مؤسسة النقد للجنوب العربي; sign: £) was the currency of South Arabia and then South Yemen between 1965 and 1990. It was subdivided into 1000 ''fils'' (فلس). After Yemen's monetary uni ...
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Terrorism in Yemen In its war on terrorism in Yemen, the US government describes Yemen as "an important partner in the global war on terrorism".
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Timeline of Yemeni history This is a timeline of Yemeni history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Yemen and its predecessor states. To understand the context to these events, see History of Yemen. See also the List of rulers of ...
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USS Cole bombing The USS ''Cole'' bombing was a suicide attack by the terrorist group al-Qaeda against , a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, on 12 October 2000, while she was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor. Seventeen U.S. Navy sail ...
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United Nations Yemen Observation Mission The UN Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM) was established in 1963. Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, North Yemen entered into a state of North Yemen Civil War, civil war in 1962. Yemen had joined Egypt in 1958, and then in 1962, separated again, spa ...
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Upper Yafa Upper Yafa or Upper Yafa'i ( ar, يافع العليا ''),'' officially State of Upper Yafa ( ar, دولة يافع العليا '')'', was a military alliance in the British Aden Protectorate and the Protectorate of South Arabia. It was rul ...
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Wahidi Balhaf Wahidi Balhaf ( '), or the Wahidi Sultanate of Balhaf in Hadhramaut ( ar, سلطنة الواحدي في بالحاف '), was one of several Wahidi states in the British Aden Protectorate. It was previously part of the Federation of Arab Emirat ...
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Wahidi Haban Wahidi Habban ( '), or the Wahidi Sultanate of Habban in Hadhramaut ( ar, سلطنة الواحدي حبان حضرموت '), was one of several Wahidi states in the British Aden Protectorate. Its capital was Habban. The last sultan, Husayn ibn ...
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Yemen Arab Republic The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; ar, الجمهورية العربية اليمنية '), also known simply as North Yemen or Yemen (Sanaʽa), was a country from 1962 to 1990 in the northwestern part of what is now Yemen.The United States extend ...
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Yemeni buqsha A buqsha or bogache ( ''buqša'') is a former monetary unit of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and the Yemen Arab Republic. 40 buqshas make up one Yemeni rial. The buqsha coin itself is bronze and approximately 27 mm (1 inch) across. Mode ...
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Yemeni unification Yemeni unification () took place on May 22, 1990, when the area of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (also known as South Yemen) was united with the Yemen Arab Republic (also known as North Yemen), forming the Republic of Yemen (known ...
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Ziyadid dynasty The Ziyadid dynasty () was a Muslim dynasty that ruled western Yemen from 819 until 1018 from the capital city of Zabid. It was the first dynastic regime to wield power over the Yemeni lowland after the introduction of Islam in about 630. The ...


Archaeological sites in Yemen

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Marib Dam The Marib Dam ( ar, سَدّ مَأْرِب ', or ar, سُدّ مَأْرِب ') is a modern dam blocking the ''Wadi'' or Valley of Adhanah (, also ''Dhanah'' ) in the Balaq Hills, located in the Ma'rib Governorate in Yemen. The current dam was ...
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Timna Timna ( Qatabānic: , romanized: , ; ar, تمنع, translit=Timnaʿ) is an ancient city in Yemen, the capital of the Qataban kingdom; it is distinct from a valley in southern Israel that shares the same name. During ancient times, Timna was an ...


Elections in Yemen

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Elections in Yemen Elections in Yemen take place within the framework of a presidential system, with both the President and House of Representatives elected by the public. Due to political instability, elections have not been held regularly since the early 2000s. E ...
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Yemeni presidential election, 2006 Presidential elections were held in Yemen on 20 September 2006, alongside local elections. Incumbent president Ali Abdullah Saleh of the General People's Congress (Yemen), General People's Congress received 77% of the vote, defeating opposition co ...


Maps of the history of Yemen


School massacres in Yemen

* Sanaa massacre


Terrorism in Yemen

* September 15, 2006 Yemen attacks *
2010 cargo plane bomb plot On October 29, 2010, two packages, each containing a bomb consisting of plastic explosives and a detonating mechanism, were found on separate cargo planes. The bombs were discovered as a result of intelligence received from Saudi Arabia's securi ...


Wars involving Yemen

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North Yemen Civil War The North Yemen Civil War ( ar, ثورة 26 سبتمبر, Thawra 26 Sabtambar, 26 September Revolution) was fought in North Yemen from 1962 to 1970 between partisans of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom and supporters of the Yemen Arab Republic. The ...
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Hanish Islands conflict The Hanish Islands conflict was a dispute between Yemen and Eritrea over the island of Greater Hanish in the Red Sea, one of the largest in the then disputed Zukur-Hanish archipelago. Fighting took place over three days from 15 December to 17 D ...


Years in Yemen


2006 in Yemen

* Yemen at the 2006 Asian Games *
Yemeni presidential election, 2006 Presidential elections were held in Yemen on 20 September 2006, alongside local elections. Incumbent president Ali Abdullah Saleh of the General People's Congress (Yemen), General People's Congress received 77% of the vote, defeating opposition co ...


Yemeni law


Crime in Yemen


Yemeni media


Newspapers published in Yemen

* Al-Ayyam (Yemen) * Shabab Yemeni * Yemen Observer *
Yemen Times The ''Yemen Times'' was an independent English-language newspaper in Yemen. The paper was published twice weekly. History and profile ''Yemen Times'' was founded in 1991 by Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, a leading economist and human rights activist, who ...


Military of Yemen

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Military of Yemen The Armed Forces of Yemen ( ar, الْقُوَّاتُ الْمُسَلَّحَةُ الْيَّمَّنِيَّة, Al-Quwwat Al-Musallahah Al-Yamaniyah) are the military forces of the Republic of Yemen. They include the Yemeni Army (including t ...
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Yemen Air Force The Yemeni Air Force ( ar, القوات الجوية اليمنية, al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Yamaniya) is the air operations branch of the Yemeni Armed Forces. Numbers of aircraft can not be confirmed but serviceability of these aircraft is low. ...


Organizations based in Yemen

* Dofar Liberation Front


Yemeni people

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List of Yemenis Famous or important Yemenis include: Yemeni early diaspora * Ghassanids, tribes consisting of more than 50 families that migrated north to the Levant * Lakhmids * Banu Judham * Kinda (tribe), Kindah * Sakasic, were a Himyarite tribe that settled ...
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Allal Ab Aljallil Abd Al Rahman Abd Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif (1981 – September 8, 2012), also known as Allal Ab Aljallil Abd al Rahman, was a Yemeni citizen imprisoned at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from January 2002 until his death in custody there, ruled ...
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa ibn Nusayr ( ar, عبد العزيز بن موسى) was the first governor of Al-Andalus, in modern-day Spain and Portugal. He was the son of Musa ibn Nusayr, the governor of Ifriqiya. ‘Abd al-Aziz had a long history of polit ...
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Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility. Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay det ...
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Abdul Aziz bin Hars bin Asad Yemeni Tamimi Abu al-Hasan 'Abd al-'Aziz b. al-Harith b. Asad b. al-Layth al-Tamimi (929–981/2 CE; 317–371 AH) ( ar, أبو الحسن عبد العزيز بن الحارث بن أسد بن الليث التميمي) was a Muslim saint who belonged to t ...
* Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser *
Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi Abū al-Faḍl al-Tamīmī (952–1020 CE/341–410 AH) Abd al-Wāḥid b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Ḥārith b. Asad al-Tamīmī or Abū al-Faḍl al-Tamīmī ( ar, ابوالفضل عبد الواحد تمیمی) was a 10th century Muslim sai ...
* Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal * Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi * Faruq Ali Ahmed * Fayad Yahya Ahmed * Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi * Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi * Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani * Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al Bahlul * Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani * Adil Said Al Haj Obeid Al Busayss * Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj *
Al Hamdani Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī (279/280-333/334 A.H. / c. 893-945 A.D; ar, أبو محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب الهمداني) was an Arab Muslim geographer, chemist, poet, grammarian, h ...
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Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal Abd al-Salam al-Hilah is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. The Department of Defense lists his place of birth as Sanaa, Yemen and his date of birth as January 30, 1 ...
* Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammed Al Yafi *
Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid is a Yemeni citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, for over fourteen and a half years, from January 11, 2002, to August 15, 2016. His Guan ...
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Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility. Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay dete ...
* Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri * Hani Abdul Muslih al Shulan * Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi * Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi * Abdullah Al-Baradouni * Muhammed al-Darbi * Muhammad al-Gharsi * Omar Ahmad Omar al-Hubishi * Al-Khayzuran * Issam Ahmad Dibwan al-Makhlafi * Samir Abduh Sa'id al-Maktawi * Bashir Nashir Al-Marwalah * Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi * Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri * Fahd al-Quso * Fawaz al-Rabeiee * Abd Al-Rahman Ali Al-Jifri * Abdullah Al-Rimi * Shuhour Abdullah Mukbil al-Sabri * Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari * Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli * Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli * Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari * Ahmad al-Akhader Nasser Albidani * Naji Al Ashwal * Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh *
Azd The Azd ( ar, أَزْد), or ''Al-Azd'' ( ar, ٱلْأَزْد), are a Tribes of Arabia, tribe of Sabaeans, Sabaean Arabs. In ancient times, the Sabaeans inhabited Ma'rib, capital city of the Sabaeans, Kingdom of Saba' in modern-day Yemen. Th ...
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Banu Lakhm The Banu Lakhm () was an Arab tribe best known for its ruling Nasrid, or more commonly, 'Lakhmid', house, which ruled as the Sasanian Empire's vassal kings in the buffer zone with the nomadic Arab tribes of northern and eastern Arabia. Iraq The ...
* Jalal Salam Bin Amer *
Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash Hassan Muhammad Salih bin Attash ( ar, حسن محمد علي بن عطاش) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held by the United States in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate th ...
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Ramzi bin al-Shibh Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah bin al-Shibh ( ar, رمزي محمد عبدالله بن الشيبة; also transliterated as bin al-Shaibah; born 1 May 1972Ghassanids *
Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility. Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay det ...
* Salem Ahmed Hadi *
Salim Ahmed Hamdan Salim Ahmed Hamdan () (born February 25, 1968) is a Yemeni man, captured during the invasion of Afghanistan, declared by the United States government to be an illegal enemy combatant and held as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to November ...
* Hamdani * Harbi al-Himyari * Abu Ali al-Harithi *
Hashid The Hashid ( ar, حاشد; Musnad: 𐩢𐩦𐩵𐩣) is a tribal confederation in Yemen. It is the second or third largest – after Bakil and, depending on sources, Madh'hij
* Emad Abdalla Hassan * Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif *
Bader Ben Hirsi Al-Bader Ben Yahya al-Hirsi, commonly known as Bader Ben Hirsi, ( ar, بدر بن هرسي, born 1968) is an English playwright and director of Yemeni ancestry. Early life and education Hirsi's father, Yahya al-Hirsi al-Ban, was from the city of L ...
* Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris * Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris * Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail * Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby * Karama Khamis * Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan *
Rizwan Khan Rizwan "Riz" Khan ( ur, ; born August 1962 ) is a British broadcaster of Asian origin. From 2006 until April 2011 he hosted his own eponymous television show on Al Jazeera English. He first rose to prominence while working for the BBC and CNN ...
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Lakhmids The Lakhmids ( ar, اللخميون, translit=al-Laḫmiyyūn) referred to in Arabic as al-Manādhirah (, romanized as: ) or Banu Lakhm (, romanized as: ) was an Arab kingdom in Southern Iraq and Eastern Arabia, with al-Hirah as their capita ...
* Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef * Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i *
Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His detainee ID number is 28. Guantanamo analysts estimated he was born in 1977, in Bajor, Yemen. Al- ...
* Muhhammad Said Bin Salem * Musa bin Nusair * Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir * Nethanel ben Isaiah * Abdulaziz Muhammad Saleh bin Otash *
Qahtanite The terms Qahtanite and Qahtani ( ar, قَحْطَانِي; transliterated: Qaḥṭānī) refer to Arabs who originate from South Arabia. The term "Qahtan" is mentioned in multiple ancient Arabian inscriptions found in Yemen. Arab traditions b ...
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Khaled Qasim Khalid Ahmed Qasim is a Yemeni citizen who has been held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, since May 2002. Official status reviews Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives appr ...
* Rabiah ibn Mudhar *
Sabaeans The Sabaeans or Sabeans ( Sabaean:, ; ar, ٱلسَّبَئِيُّوْن, ''as-Sabaʾiyyūn''; he, סְבָאִים, Səḇāʾīm) were an ancient group of South Arabians. They spoke the Sabaean language, one of the Old South Arabian langu ...
* Said Muhammed Salih Hatim * Sharifa Fatima * Shawki Awad Balzuhair * Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani * Riyadh Shikawi *
Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility. Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay det ...
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Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada is a citizen of Yemen, who was formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His detainee ID number is 178. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analy ...
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Ayoob Tarish Ayoob Tarish Absi ( ar, أيوب طارش عبسي, born 1942; first name also spelled Ayoub; last name also spelled Absey) is a Yemeni singer and musician from the area of Al-Aboos in the Ta'izz Governorate. Tarish composed " United Republic", the ...
* Toufiq Saber Muhammad Al Marwa’i *
Waddah al-Yaman Waddah al-Yaman ( ar, وضّاح اليمن), born Abdul Rahman bin Isma’il al-Khawlani ( ar, عبدالرحمن بن اسماعيل الخولاني) (died 708), was an Arab poet. Biography Al-Yaman was born in Yemen in the second half of the ...
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Haitham al-Yemeni Haitham al-Yemeni ( ar, هيثم اليمني) (?? – May 2005) was an al Qaeda explosives expert from Yemen. He was killed in North Waziristan, northwest Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border, in early May 2005 in a drone attack by an unmanned ...
* Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun * Walid Said Bin Said Zaid * Abdulrab Muhammad Muhammad Ali al-Sayfi


Yemeni extrajudicial prisoners of the United States

* Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi * Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal * Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi *
Ali Abdullah Ahmed Ali Abdullah Ahmed, also known as Salah Ahmed al-Salami (Arabic: علي عبدالله احمد) (August 1, 1979 – June 10, 2006), was a citizen of Yemen who died whilst being held as an enemy combatant in the United States Guantanamo Bay de ...
* Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed * Faruq Ali Ahmed * Fayad Yahya Ahmed * Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi * Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi * Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani * Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani * Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah * Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj * Mohammed Abdullah Al Hamiri *
Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi (February 1978 - June 1, 2009)
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Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal Abd al-Salam al-Hilah is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. The Department of Defense lists his place of birth as Sanaa, Yemen and his date of birth as January 30, 1 ...
* Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi * Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi * Ha Il Aziz Ahmed Al Maythali * Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani *
Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid is a Yemeni citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, for over fourteen and a half years, from January 11, 2002, to August 15, 2016. His Guan ...
* Nasir Najr Nasir Balud Al Mutayri * Sulaiman Awath Sulaiman Bin Ageel Al Nahdi * Khalid Abd Jal Jabbar Muhammad Juthman Al Qadasi *
Sabri Mohammed Ebrahim Al Qurashi A total of 133 Saudi citizens have been held in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps at its naval base in Cuba since January 2002. Most had been swept up in Afghanistan following the US invasion in the fall of 2001, and they were clas ...
* Abdul Rahman Umir Al Qyati * Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu Al Haj Al Radai * Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi *
Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility. Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay dete ...
* Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri * Abdul Al Saleh * Fahmi Salem Said Al Sani * Mustafa Abdul Qawi Abdul Aziz Al Shamyri * Hani Abdul Muslih al Shulan * Ali Husayn Abdullah Al Tays * Hamoud Abdullah Hamoud Hassan Al Wady * Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab * Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi * Mohammed Ali Salem Al Zarnuki * Saleh Mohamed Al Zuba * Muhammed al-Darbi * Sanad Ali Yislam Al-Kazimi * Abdulah Alhamiri * Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh * Yasim Muhammed Basardah * Jalal Salam Bin Amer *
Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash Hassan Muhammad Salih bin Attash ( ar, حسن محمد علي بن عطاش) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held by the United States in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate th ...
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Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir Muhammad Ali Abdallah Muhammad Bwazir is a citizen of Yemen, once held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Bwazir's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 440. American intelligence analys ...
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Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility. Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay det ...
* Salem Ahmed Hadi * Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel *
Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility. Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay det ...
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Salim Ahmed Hamdan Salim Ahmed Hamdan () (born February 25, 1968) is a Yemeni man, captured during the invasion of Afghanistan, declared by the United States government to be an illegal enemy combatant and held as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to November ...
* Mohammed Mohammed Hassen * Said Muhammed Salih Hatim * Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif * Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris * Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris * Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail * Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail * Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby * Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan * Mohammed Nasir Yahya Khusruf * Ahmed Yaslam Said Kuman * Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi * Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef * Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i * Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Masud * Hussein Salem Mohammed * Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel * Muhsin Muhammad Musheen Moqbill *
Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His detainee ID number is 28. Guantanamo analysts estimated he was born in 1977, in Bajor, Yemen. Al- ...
* Muhhammad Said Bin Salem * Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser * Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir * Ahmed Abdul Qader *
Khaled Qasim Khalid Ahmed Qasim is a Yemeni citizen who has been held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, since May 2002. Official status reviews Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives appr ...
* Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii * Mohammed Ahmed Salam * Shawki Awad Balzuhair *
Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility. Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay det ...
* Mohmmad Ahmad Ali Tahar *
Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada is a citizen of Yemen, who was formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His detainee ID number is 178. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analy ...
* Toufiq Saber Muhammad Al Marwa’i * Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman * Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun * Walid Said Bin Said Zaid * Mohammed H. Al-Shatri


Yemenite Jews

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Yemenite Jews Yemenite Jews or Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from ''Yehudei Teman''; ar, اليهود اليمنيون) are those Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Is ...
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Zohar Argov Zohar Argov ( he, זוהר ארגוב, born , Zohar Orkabi, July 16, 1955 – November 6, 1987) was an Israeli singer and a distinctive voice in the Mizrahi music scene. Argov is widely known in Israel as "The king of Mizrahi music". Biography ...
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Daklon Daklon (born Joseph Levy; 6 April 1944) is an Israeli singer. He was born in Tel Aviv's Kerem Hateimanim neighborhood, the son of Jewish immigrants from the Shar'ab region in Yemen. Daklon explains the source of his nickname: "In those days ...
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Shoshana Damari Shoshana Damari ( he, שושנה דמארי; March 31, 1923 – February 14, 2006) was a Yemeni-Israeli singer known as the "Queen of Hebrew Music." Biography Shoshana Damari was born in Dhamar, Yemen. Her family immigrated to Mandate Pales ...
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Dhu Nuwas Dhū Nuwās, ( ar, ذُو نُوَاس), real name "Yūsuf Asʾar Yathʾar" ( Musnad: 𐩺𐩥𐩪𐩰 𐩱𐩪𐩱𐩧 𐩺𐩻𐩱𐩧, ''Yws¹f ʾs¹ʾr Yṯʾr''), "Yosef Nu'as" ( he, יוסף נואס), or "Yūsuf ibn Sharhabīl" ( ar, يُ ...
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Dor Daim The Dardaim or Dor Daim ( he, דרדעים), are adherents of the Dor Deah movement in Orthodox Judaism . (; Hebrew: "generation of knowledge", an allusion to the Israelites who witnessed the Exodus.) That movement took its name in 1912 in Yemen ...
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Zion Golan Zion Golan ( he, ציון גולן ''Tzion Golan''; ar, صهيون غولان ''Sahyoun Ghawlan''; ''Zion Golan''; b. 1955), also known as Tzion Golan, is an Israeli singer of Yemenite Jewish origin. Background Most of Golan's songs are in Ju ...
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Ofra Haza Bat-Sheva Ofra Haza ( he, בת-שבע עפרה חזה; 19 November 1957 – 23 February 2000), known as Ofra Haza (), was an Israeli singer, songwriter, actress, and Grammy Award-nominated recording artist commonly known in the Western world as ...
* Jacob ben Nathanael * Kerem Hatemanim * Kiryat Netafim *
Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen) Operation Magic Carpet is a widely known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles ( he, כנפי נשרים, ''Kanfei Nesharim''), an operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 49,000 Yemenite Jews to the new state of Isra ...
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Shalom Shabazi Rabbi Shalom ben Yosef ben Avigad Shabazi of the family of Mashtā (1619 – c. 1720), also Abba Sholem Shabazi or Saalem al-Shabazi ( he, שלום שבזי; ar, سالم الشبزي), was a Jewish poet who lived in 17th century Yemen. He i ...
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Shalom Sharabi Sar Shalom Sharabi ( he, שר שלום מזרחי דידיע שרעבי), also known as the Rashash, the Shemesh or Ribbi Shalom Mizraḥi deyedi`a Sharabi (1720–1777), was a Yemenite Rabbi, Halachist, Chazzan and Kabbalist. In later life, ...
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Yosef Qafih Yosef Qafiḥ ( he, יוסף קאפח , ), widely known as Rabbi Yosef Kapach (27 November 1917 – 21 July 2000), was a Yemenite-Israeli authority on Jewish religious law (''halakha''), a dayan of the Supreme Rabbinical Court in Israel, and o ...


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Hamid al-Ahmar Hamid bin Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar ( ar, الشيخ حميد بن عبد الله بن حسين الأحمر) (born 1967) is a Yemeni politician currently living in exile after fleeing Yemen during the Houthi takeover of Sana'a September 20 ...
* Abdulkarim Al-Arhabi * Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini * Muhammad Said al-Attar *
Abdul Karim al-Iryani Abdul Karim Ali Al-Iryani or Al-Eryani (; ar, عبد الكريم علي يحيى محمد عبد الله الإرياني‎; 12 October 1934 – 8November 2015) was the Prime Minister of Yemen from 29 April 1998 to 31March 2001. Al-Eryani, ...
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Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas ( ar, حيدر أبو بكر العطاس; born April 5, 1939) was appointed Prime Minister of Yemen by President Ali Abdullah Saleh when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic united in 1990 to ...
* Ali Salim al-Baidh * Abdul Qadir Bajamal *
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem Faraj Said Bin Ghanem ( ar, فرج سعيد بن غانم) (born 1937, died August 5, 2007) was the Prime Minister of Yemen from 17 May 1997 to 29 April 1998. Early life and education Born in Ghail Bawazir, Hadramout Governorate, on December ...
* Ahmad bin Yahya * Abdul Latif Dayfallah *
Dhu Nuwas Dhū Nuwās, ( ar, ذُو نُوَاس), real name "Yūsuf Asʾar Yathʾar" ( Musnad: 𐩺𐩥𐩪𐩰 𐩱𐩪𐩱𐩧 𐩺𐩻𐩱𐩧, ''Yws¹f ʾs¹ʾr Yṯʾr''), "Yosef Nu'as" ( he, יוסף נואס), or "Yūsuf ibn Sharhabīl" ( ar, يُ ...
* Mahmoud al-Gayifi *
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani ( ; 4 July 1939 – 22 August 2011) was a Yemeni politician who served as Prime Minister of Yemen from 1994 to 1997, under President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Ghani was a member of the General People's Congress party. Ghani also ...
* Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri *
Muhammad Ali Haitham Muhammad Ali Haitham (7 March 1940 – 10 July 1993) ( ar, محمد علي هيثم) was the 2nd Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. Haitham was appointed Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (Sout ...
* Abdul Rahman al-Iryani * Abdullah Kurshumi *
Hassan Muhammad Makki Hassan Muhammad Makki ( ar, حسن محمد مكي) (22 December 1933 – 9 June 2016) was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic for four months in 1974. Makki was appointed by President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani. He was replaced shortly af ...
* Muhammad al-Badr * Yasin Said Numan *
Ahmad Muhammad Numan Ahmad Muhammad Numan ( ar, أحمد محمد نعمان; 26 April 1909 – 27 September 1996) was an educator, propagandist and politician. He was a principal progenitor of modern Yemeni nationalism. Numan was an original founder of the Free Yem ...
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Jarallah Omar Jarallah Omar al-Kuhali ( ar, جار الله عمر) (1942 in Kuhal, Ibb Governorate – 28 December 2002) was a Yemeni politician, intellectual, and guerrilla fighter. He was trained in Islamic law, but in the 1960s he turned towards Marxism. He ...
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Ali Abdullah Saleh Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (, ''ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar;'' 21 March 1947There is a dispute as to Saleh's date of birth, some saying that it was on 21 March 1942. See: However, by Saleh's own confession, he was born in 1947 al ...
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Abdullah as-Sallal Abdullah Yahya al-Sallal ( ar, عبد الله يحيى السلال, ʿAbd Allāh Yaḥyā al-Sallāl; January 9, 1917 – March 5, 1994) was the leader of the North Yemeni Revolution of 1962. He served as the first President of the Yemen Arab ...
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Faysal al-Shaabi Faysal Abd al-Latif al-Shaabi ( ar, فيصل عبد الطيف الشعبي) (1935–2 April 1970) was the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of South Yemen from 6 April 1969 until the political coup (Corrective Move) that led to Salim Ali R ...
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Faisal Bin Shamlan Faisal Othman Bin Shamlan (1934 – 1 January 2010) (فيصل عثمان بن شملان) (faiṣal bin šamlān) was a Yemeni intellectual, technocrat, political reformist and public figure. He was a Yemeni member of parliament who had held ...
* Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani * Wahiba Fara’a *
Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din , succession1 = King of Yemen , succession2 = Imam of Yemen , image = Imam yahya cropped.png , image_size = , caption = Portrait of Yahya by Ameen Rihani, 1922. Imam Yahya steadfastly refused to be photographed t ...


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Ahmad al-Ghashmi Ahmad bin Hussein al-Ghashmi (21 August 1935 – 24 June 1978) ( ar, أحمد حسين الغشمي, Aḥmad Ḥusayn al-Ghašmī) was the President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 11 October 1977 until his death eight months later. Al-Ghashmi ...
* Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri *
Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din , succession1 = King of Yemen , succession2 = Imam of Yemen , image = Imam yahya cropped.png , image_size = , caption = Portrait of Yahya by Ameen Rihani, 1922. Imam Yahya steadfastly refused to be photographed t ...


Presidents of North Yemen

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Ahmad al-Ghashmi Ahmad bin Hussein al-Ghashmi (21 August 1935 – 24 June 1978) ( ar, أحمد حسين الغشمي, Aḥmad Ḥusayn al-Ghašmī) was the President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 11 October 1977 until his death eight months later. Al-Ghashmi ...
* Ibrahim al-Hamadi *
Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi (1 December 1934 – 10 June 2006) ( ar, عبد الكريم عبد الله العرشي, ʿAbd al-Karīm ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿArāshī), was a Yemeni politician who served as the President of the Yemen Arab Republic ...
* Abdul Rahman al-Iryani *
Ali Abdullah Saleh Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (, ''ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar;'' 21 March 1947There is a dispute as to Saleh's date of birth, some saying that it was on 21 March 1942. See: However, by Saleh's own confession, he was born in 1947 al ...
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Abdullah as-Sallal Abdullah Yahya al-Sallal ( ar, عبد الله يحيى السلال, ʿAbd Allāh Yaḥyā al-Sallāl; January 9, 1917 – March 5, 1994) was the leader of the North Yemeni Revolution of 1962. He served as the first President of the Yemen Arab ...


Presidents of South Yemen

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Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas ( ar, حيدر أبو بكر العطاس; born April 5, 1939) was appointed Prime Minister of Yemen by President Ali Abdullah Saleh when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic united in 1990 to ...
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Abdul Fattah Ismail Abd al-Fattah Ismail Ali Al-Jawfi ( ar, عبد الفتاح إسماعيل علي الجوفي , translit=ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Ismāʿīl; 28 July 1939 – 13 January 1986) was the Marxist ''de facto'' leader of People's Democratic Republic of Yem ...
* Ali Nasir Muhammad * Salim Ali Rubai * Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi


Rulers of Yemen

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Arwa al-Sulayhi ) , name = Arwā bint Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Mūsā Aṣ-Ṣulayḥī , other_names = ''As-Sayyidah Al-Ḥurrah'' () ''Al-Malikah Al-Ḥurrah'' ( ar, ٱلْمَلِكَة ٱلْحُرَّة or ...
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Ali Abdullah Saleh Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (, ''ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar;'' 21 March 1947There is a dispute as to Saleh's date of birth, some saying that it was on 21 March 1942. See: However, by Saleh's own confession, he was born in 1947 al ...


Yemeni economists

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Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf Professor Abdulaziz Y. Al-Saqqaf (24 October 1954 in Taiz – 2 June 1999) was a Yemeni human-rights activist, economist, and journalist. Saqqaf established the ''Yemen Times'', unified Yemen's first and most widely read English language, Engli ...


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Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa ibn Nusayr ( ar, عبد العزيز بن موسى) was the first governor of Al-Andalus, in modern-day Spain and Portugal. He was the son of Musa ibn Nusayr, the governor of Ifriqiya. ‘Abd al-Aziz had a long history of polit ...
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Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani ( ; 4 July 1939 – 22 August 2011) was a Yemeni politician who served as Prime Minister of Yemen from 1994 to 1997, under President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Ghani was a member of the General People's Congress party. Ghani also ...
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Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi (1 December 1934 – 10 June 2006) ( ar, عبد الكريم عبد الله العرشي, ʿAbd al-Karīm ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿArāshī), was a Yemeni politician who served as the President of the Yemen Arab Republic ...
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Abdul Karim al-Iryani Abdul Karim Ali Al-Iryani or Al-Eryani (; ar, عبد الكريم علي يحيى محمد عبد الله الإرياني‎; 12 October 1934 – 8November 2015) was the Prime Minister of Yemen from 29 April 1998 to 31March 2001. Al-Eryani, ...
* Abdul Latif Dayfallah * Abdul Qadir Bajamal * Abdul Rahman al-Iryani * Abdul Salam Sabrah * AbdulWahab Raweh *
Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf Professor Abdulaziz Y. Al-Saqqaf (24 October 1954 in Taiz – 2 June 1999) was a Yemeni human-rights activist, economist, and journalist. Saqqaf established the ''Yemen Times'', unified Yemen's first and most widely read English language, Engli ...
* Abdullah Al-Baradouni * Abdullah Kurshumi *
Abdullah as-Sallal Abdullah Yahya al-Sallal ( ar, عبد الله يحيى السلال, ʿAbd Allāh Yaḥyā al-Sallāl; January 9, 1917 – March 5, 1994) was the leader of the North Yemeni Revolution of 1962. He served as the first President of the Yemen Arab ...
* Abu Ali al-Harithi *
Ageel bin Muhammad al-Badr Prince Ageel bin Muhammad al-Badr Hamidaddin (Arabic: عقيل بن محمد البدر حميد الدين) (born London in 1973) is the eldest son of Muhammad al-Badr, the last ruling king of the Yemen. Biography Yemen became a republic fo ...
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Ahmad Muhammad Numan Ahmad Muhammad Numan ( ar, أحمد محمد نعمان; 26 April 1909 – 27 September 1996) was an educator, propagandist and politician. He was a principal progenitor of modern Yemeni nationalism. Numan was an original founder of the Free Yem ...
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Ahmad al-Ghashmi Ahmad bin Hussein al-Ghashmi (21 August 1935 – 24 June 1978) ( ar, أحمد حسين الغشمي, Aḥmad Ḥusayn al-Ghašmī) was the President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 11 October 1977 until his death eight months later. Al-Ghashmi ...
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Ayoob Tarish Ayoob Tarish Absi ( ar, أيوب طارش عبسي, born 1942; first name also spelled Ayoub; last name also spelled Absey) is a Yemeni singer and musician from the area of Al-Aboos in the Ta'izz Governorate. Tarish composed " United Republic", the ...
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Faraj Said Bin Ghanem Faraj Said Bin Ghanem ( ar, فرج سعيد بن غانم) (born 1937, died August 5, 2007) was the Prime Minister of Yemen from 17 May 1997 to 29 April 1998. Early life and education Born in Ghail Bawazir, Hadramout Governorate, on December ...
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Faysal al-Shaabi Faysal Abd al-Latif al-Shaabi ( ar, فيصل عبد الطيف الشعبي) (1935–2 April 1970) was the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of South Yemen from 6 April 1969 until the political coup (Corrective Move) that led to Salim Ali R ...
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Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas ( ar, حيدر أبو بكر العطاس; born April 5, 1939) was appointed Prime Minister of Yemen by President Ali Abdullah Saleh when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic united in 1990 to ...
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Haitham al-Yemeni Haitham al-Yemeni ( ar, هيثم اليمني) (?? – May 2005) was an al Qaeda explosives expert from Yemen. He was killed in North Waziristan, northwest Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border, in early May 2005 in a drone attack by an unmanned ...
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Hassan Muhammad Makki Hassan Muhammad Makki ( ar, حسن محمد مكي) (22 December 1933 – 9 June 2016) was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic for four months in 1974. Makki was appointed by President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani. He was replaced shortly af ...
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Muhammad Ali Haitham Muhammad Ali Haitham (7 March 1940 – 10 July 1993) ( ar, محمد علي هيثم) was the 2nd Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. Haitham was appointed Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (Sout ...
* Muhammad Assad * Muhammad Said al-Attar * Muhammad al-Gharsi * Naji Al Ashwal * Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi * Rabiah ibn Mudhar * Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq * Said Muhammed Salih Hatim * Salim Ali Rubai * Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel * Sharifa Fatima * Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani * Wahiba Fara’a * Yasin Said Numan * Abdullah Muhammad AlKathiri


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Politics of Yemen The Politics of Yemen are in an uncertain state due to the Houthi takeover in Yemen. An armed group known as the Houthis or Ansar Allah seized control of the Northern Yemeni government and announced it would dissolve parliament, as well as insta ...
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Emblem of Yemen The national emblem of Yemen depicts a golden eagle of Saladin with a scroll between its claws. On the scroll is written the name of the country in ar, الجمهورية اليمنية or ("The Yemeni Republic"). The chest of the eagle contai ...
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Flag of Yemen The flag of Yemen ( ''Alam al-Yaman'') was adopted on May 22, 1990, the day that North Yemen and South Yemen were unified. The flag is essentially the Arab Liberation Flag of 1952, introduced after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 in which Arab ...
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Human rights in Yemen Human rights in Yemen are seen as problematic. The security forces have been responsible for torture, inhumane treatment and even extrajudicial executions. In recent years there has been some improvement, with the government signing several intern ...
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National anthem of Yemen "United Republic" ( ar, الجمهورية المتحدة, al-Jomhuriyah al-Mottaḥedah) is the national anthem of Yemen. It was written by Abdollah Abdolwahâb Noʿmân and composed by ʾAyub Ṭâreš. The music was formerly used as the nation ...
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Steadfastness and Confrontation Front The Steadfastness and Confrontation Front ( ar, ) was a political initiative of 4 December 1977 by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the governments of Libya, Algeria, Syria and South Yemen following the visit by Egyptian Pres ...
* Wahiba Fara’a


Political parties in Yemen

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List of political parties in Yemen Before the Yemeni Revolution in 2011 and the following civil war, Yemen was a one party dominant state in which the General People's Congress (GPC) held power. Legal status Yemen's Political Parties Law mandates that political parties be viable ...
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Yemeni Congregation for Reform The Yemeni Congregation for Reform, frequently called al-Islah (; ar, التجمع اليمني للإصلاح, at-Tajammu’u al-Yamanī lil-Iṣlāḥ), is a Yemeni Islamist party founded in 1990 by Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, Ali Mohsen ...
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Yemeni Socialist Party The Yemeni Socialist Party ( ar, الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني, ''al-Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Yamani'', YSP) is a political party in Yemen. A successor of Yemen's National Liberation Front, it was the ruling party in South Yemen until ...


Religion in Yemen

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Islam in Yemen Islam in Yemen dates back to about 630AD, when it was introduced into the region by Ali when Muhammad was still alive. It was during this period that the mosques in Janad (near Ta'izz) and the Great Mosque of Sana'a were built. Yemenis are d ...
* Roman Catholicism in Yemen


Zaydi

* Zaidiyyah


Zaydis

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Muhammad ash-Shawkani Muḥammad al-Shawkānī (1759–1834) was a prominent Yemeni Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist, theologian and reformer. Shawkani was one of the most influential proponents of Athari theology and is revered as one of their canonical scholars by Sala ...


Science and Technology in Yemen

* Internet in Yemen


Sport in Yemen

* Yemen at the 2006 Asian Games * Yemen at the Commonwealth Games


Football in Yemen

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South Yemen national football team The South Yemen national football team ( ar, منتخب اليمن الجنوبي الوطني لكرة القدم) was the national team of South Yemen between 1965 and 1989. The team took part in the Asian Cup finals in 1976, losing 0–8 to ...
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Yemen national football team The Yemen national football team ( ar, منتخب اليمن الوطني لكرة القدم), is the national team of Yemen and is controlled by the Yemen Football Association. When the nation was split into North Yemen and South Yemen befo ...


Yemeni football clubs

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Al Yarmuk Al Rawda Al Yarmuk Al Rawda ( ar, اليرموك) is a Yemeni professional football club based in San‘a’. Founded in 1978, the club competes in the Yemeni League. Achievements *Yemeni League: 3 ::1989, 1990, 2013 *Yemeni Super Cup: 0 ::Runners-up: 2 ...
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Al-Ahli (San'a') Al-Ahli Club Sanaa () is a Yemeni football and basketball club based in Sanaa, Yemen. The club was founded in 1952. Al-Ahli has a fierce rivalry with local rivals Al-Wehda which manifests itself in the Al-Wahda versus Al-Ahli matches, known a ...
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Al-Hilal (Al Hudaydah) Al-Hilal al-Sahili () is a Yemeni football club based in Al Hudaydah, Yemen. The club was founded in 1971. Achievements *Yemeni League : Champions (2): 2008, 2009 *Yemeni President Cup : Champions (2): 2005, 2008 *Yemeni September 26 Cup ...
* Hassan (Yemen football club) * Al-Saqr *
Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut () is a Yemeni football team playing at the top level. It is based in Mukalla. Their home stadium is Baradem Mukalla Stadium. Achievements * Yemeni President Cup: 2 ::2000, 2006 * Yemeni Super Cup: 1 ::2014 Performance i ...
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Al-Tilal Al-Tilal Sports Club ( ar, نادي التلال) is a Yemeni multi-sports club based in Aden, Yemen. The club was founded in 1905. Achievements * Yemeni League: 2 ** 1991, 2005 * Yemeni Presidents Cup: 2 ** 2007, 2010 * Yemeni Naseem Cup: ...


Yemeni football competitions

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Football venues in Yemen

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Ali Muhesen Stadium Altawra Sports City Stadium ( ar, مدينة الثورة الرياضية), also known as the Ali Mohsen al-Muraisi Stadium ( ar, ملعب علي محسن المريسي), is a multi-purpose stadium in San‘a’, Yemen. It is currently used most ...
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Althawra Sports City Stadium Altawra Sports City Stadium ( ar, مدينة الثورة الرياضية), also known as the Ali Mohsen al-Muraisi Stadium ( ar, ملعب علي محسن المريسي), is a multi-purpose stadium in San‘a’, Yemen. It is currently used most ...
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Baradem Mukalla Stadium Baradem Mukalla Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Mukalla, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, ...
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May 22 Stadium The 22 May Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Aden, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and bord ...


Yemen at the Olympics

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South Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics South Yemen competed as the Yemen Democratic Republic at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. It was the only time that the nation would compete at the Olympic Games. After Yemenite reunification, unification with Yemen Arab Republic, N ...
* Yemen at the 1992 Summer Olympics * Yemen at the 1996 Summer Olympics * Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics * Yemen at the 2004 Summer Olympics


Transport and travel in Yemen

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Transport in Yemen As a direct consequence of the country's poverty, Yemen compares unfavorably with its Middle Eastern neighbors in terms of transportation infrastructure and communications network. The roads are generally poor, although several projects are planned ...
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Visa requirements for Yemeni citizens Visa requirements for Yemeni citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Yemen. As of 2 July 2019, Yemeni citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 33 countries and territories, ...


Aviation in Yemen

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Yemen Air Force The Yemeni Air Force ( ar, القوات الجوية اليمنية, al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Yamaniya) is the air operations branch of the Yemeni Armed Forces. Numbers of aircraft can not be confirmed but serviceability of these aircraft is low. ...
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Yemenia Yemenia ( ar, اليمنية) is the flag carrier airline of Yemen, based in Sanaa. It operates scheduled domestic and international passenger flights to destinations in Africa and the Middle East out of its hubs at Aden International Airport, ...


Airports in Yemen

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Al Ghaydah Airport Al Ghaydah Airport is an airport near Al Ghaydah, Yemen. History In December 2017, Saudi Arabia began stationing troops at Al-Ghaydah International Airport, as part of the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen Saudi may refer to: * Saudi Ar ...
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Sana'a International Airport Sanaa International Airport is the primary international airport of Yemen located in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. It services Sanaa City as well as the entire population of the Northern Provinces of Yemen. Initially, a small passenger terminal ...
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Aden-Abyan Islamic Army The Aden-Abyan Islamic Army (AAIA, ar, جيش عدن أبين الإسلامي) is an Islamist militant group based in southern Yemen, led by Zein al-Abideen al-Mehdar (also known as Abu El-Hassan El-Mohader). The group has been designated as a ...
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Al Yarmuk Al Rawda Al Yarmuk Al Rawda ( ar, اليرموك) is a Yemeni professional football club based in San‘a’. Founded in 1978, the club competes in the Yemeni League. Achievements *Yemeni League: 3 ::1989, 1990, 2013 *Yemeni Super Cup: 0 ::Runners-up: 2 ...
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Al-Ahli (San'a') Al-Ahli Club Sanaa () is a Yemeni football and basketball club based in Sanaa, Yemen. The club was founded in 1952. Al-Ahli has a fierce rivalry with local rivals Al-Wehda which manifests itself in the Al-Wahda versus Al-Ahli matches, known a ...
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Al-Hilal (Al Hudaydah) Al-Hilal al-Sahili () is a Yemeni football club based in Al Hudaydah, Yemen. The club was founded in 1971. Achievements *Yemeni League : Champions (2): 2008, 2009 *Yemeni President Cup : Champions (2): 2005, 2008 *Yemeni September 26 Cup ...
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Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut () is a Yemeni football team playing at the top level. It is based in Mukalla. Their home stadium is Baradem Mukalla Stadium. Achievements * Yemeni President Cup: 2 ::2000, 2006 * Yemeni Super Cup: 1 ::2014 Performance i ...
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Al-Tilal Al-Tilal Sports Club ( ar, نادي التلال) is a Yemeni multi-sports club based in Aden, Yemen. The club was founded in 1905. Achievements * Yemeni League: 2 ** 1991, 2005 * Yemeni Presidents Cup: 2 ** 2007, 2010 * Yemeni Naseem Cup: ...
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Ali Muhesen Stadium Altawra Sports City Stadium ( ar, مدينة الثورة الرياضية), also known as the Ali Mohsen al-Muraisi Stadium ( ar, ملعب علي محسن المريسي), is a multi-purpose stadium in San‘a’, Yemen. It is currently used most ...
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Althawra Sports City Stadium Altawra Sports City Stadium ( ar, مدينة الثورة الرياضية), also known as the Ali Mohsen al-Muraisi Stadium ( ar, ملعب علي محسن المريسي), is a multi-purpose stadium in San‘a’, Yemen. It is currently used most ...
* Arab Socialist Rebirth Party (Yemen) * Assembly of Representatives of Yemen *
Azd The Azd ( ar, أَزْد), or ''Al-Azd'' ( ar, ٱلْأَزْد), are a Tribes of Arabia, tribe of Sabaeans, Sabaean Arabs. In ancient times, the Sabaeans inhabited Ma'rib, capital city of the Sabaeans, Kingdom of Saba' in modern-day Yemen. Th ...
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Baradem Mukalla Stadium Baradem Mukalla Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Mukalla, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, ...
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Communications in Yemen Telecommunications in Yemen provides information about the telephone, Internet, radio, and television infrastructure in Yemen. Infrastructure Since unification in 1990, efforts have been made to create a national telecommunications network. The i ...
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Democratic Republic of Yemen The Democratic Republic of Yemen ( '), colloquially known as South Yemen, was a breakaway state that fought against Yemen Arab Republic in the 1994 Yemeni Civil War. It was declared in May 1994 and covered all of the former South Yemen. Th ...
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Elections in Yemen Elections in Yemen take place within the framework of a presidential system, with both the President and House of Representatives elected by the public. Due to political instability, elections have not been held regularly since the early 2000s. E ...
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Emblem of Yemen The national emblem of Yemen depicts a golden eagle of Saladin with a scroll between its claws. On the scroll is written the name of the country in ar, الجمهورية اليمنية or ("The Yemeni Republic"). The chest of the eagle contai ...
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Flag of Yemen The flag of Yemen ( ''Alam al-Yaman'') was adopted on May 22, 1990, the day that North Yemen and South Yemen were unified. The flag is essentially the Arab Liberation Flag of 1952, introduced after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 in which Arab ...
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Hashid The Hashid ( ar, حاشد; Musnad: 𐩢𐩦𐩵𐩣) is a tribal confederation in Yemen. It is the second or third largest – after Bakil and, depending on sources, Madh'hij
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Jachnun Jachnun or Jahnun ( he, גַ'חְנוּן, , ) is a Yemenite Jewish pastry, originating from the Adeni Jews, and traditionally served on ''Shabbat'' morning. Yemenite Jewish immigrants have popularized the dish in Israel. Preparation Jahnun is p ...
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List of Presidents of Yemen The president of the Republic of Yemen is the head of state of Yemen. Under the Constitution of Yemen, the president is also the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and head of the executive branch of the Yemeni government. As of 7 April 20 ...
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Mandi (food) Mandi ( ar, مندي) is a traditional dish that originated from Hadhramaut, Yemen, consisting mainly of meat and rice with a special blend of spices, cooked in a pit underground. It is popular and commonly consumed in most areas of the Arabi ...
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May 22 Stadium The 22 May Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Aden, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and bord ...
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Mehri people The Mehri (var. al-Mahrah, al-Meheri, al-Mahri or al-Mahra ( ar, المهرة), also known as the al-Mahrah tribe ( ar, قبيلة المهرة), are a Semitic ethnic group primarily inhabiting South Arabia and the Guardafui Channel island of ...
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Mehri language Mehri or Mahri ( مهريّت ) is the most spoken of the Modern South Arabian languages (MSALs), a subgroup of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is spoken by the Mehri tribes, who inhabit isolated areas of the eastern part of Y ...
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Military of Yemen The Armed Forces of Yemen ( ar, الْقُوَّاتُ الْمُسَلَّحَةُ الْيَّمَّنِيَّة, Al-Quwwat Al-Musallahah Al-Yamaniyah) are the military forces of the Republic of Yemen. They include the Yemeni Army (including t ...
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Minaeans The Minaean people were the inhabitants of the kingdom of Ma'in ( Minaean: ''Maʿīn''; modern Arabic ''Maʿīn'') in modern-day Yemen, dating back to the 10th century BCE-150 BCE. It was located along the strip of desert called Ṣayhad ...
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Music of Yemen Yemen is a country on the Arabian Peninsula, and the music of Yemen is primarily known abroad for a series of pan-Arab popular stars and the Yemenite Jews who became musical stars in Israel during the 20th century. In the Arab world, Yemen has lon ...
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North Yemen Civil War The North Yemen Civil War ( ar, ثورة 26 سبتمبر, Thawra 26 Sabtambar, 26 September Revolution) was fought in North Yemen from 1962 to 1970 between partisans of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom and supporters of the Yemen Arab Republic. The ...
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Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen) Operation Magic Carpet is a widely known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles ( he, כנפי נשרים, ''Kanfei Nesharim''), an operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 49,000 Yemenite Jews to the new state of Isra ...
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Postage stamps and postal history of Aden Aden is a city in southern Yemen. Aden's location made it a popular exchange port for mail passing between places around the Indian Ocean and Europe. When Captain S. B. Haines of the Indian Marine, the East India Company's navy, occupied Aden on 19 ...
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President of Yemen Arab Republic The President of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of state in the former North Yemen from 1962 to 1990. There were six presidents of North Yemen. List of Presidents of the Yemen Arab Republic (1962–1990) For presidents of Yemen after 199 ...
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Prime Minister of South Yemen The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (commonly referred to as South Yemen) became independent as the People's Republic of South Yemen in November 1967, after the British withdrawal from the Federation of South Arabia and the Protectorate o ...
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Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic The prime minister of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of government of that country in what is now northern Yemen. The Prime Minister was appointed by the President. There were twelve prime ministers of North Yemen. List of prime ministers ...
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Qahtanite The terms Qahtanite and Qahtani ( ar, قَحْطَانِي; transliterated: Qaḥṭānī) refer to Arabs who originate from South Arabia. The term "Qahtan" is mentioned in multiple ancient Arabian inscriptions found in Yemen. Arab traditions b ...
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Qutaibi Qutaibi ( ar, قطيبي ') or the Qutaibi Sheikhdom ( ar, مشيخة القطيبي ') was a polity in the western Aden Protectorate. It was a dependency of the Emirate of Dhala and is now part of the Republic of Yemen. In 1964, during the Ade ...
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Sabaean language Sabaean, also known as Sabaic, was an Old South Arabian language spoken between c. 1000 BC and the 6th century AD, by the Sabaeans. It was used as a written language by some other peoples of the ancient civilization of South Arabia, including t ...
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Sabaeans The Sabaeans or Sabeans ( Sabaean:, ; ar, ٱلسَّبَئِيُّوْن, ''as-Sabaʾiyyūn''; he, סְבָאִים, Səḇāʾīm) were an ancient group of South Arabians. They spoke the Sabaean language, one of the Old South Arabian langu ...
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Soqotri language Soqotri (also spelt Socotri, Sokotri, or Suqutri; autonym: ماتڸ دسقطري, ''mɛ́taḷ di-saḳɔ́ṭri''; , ''al-luḡah al-suquṭriyyah'') is a South Semitic language spoken by the Soqotri people on the island of Socotra and the two ...
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South Arabian alphabet The Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 ''ms3nd''; modern ar, الْمُسْنَد ''musnad'') branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the late 2nd millennium BCE. It was used for writing the Old Sou ...
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South Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics South Yemen competed as the Yemen Democratic Republic at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. It was the only time that the nation would compete at the Olympic Games. After Yemenite reunification, unification with Yemen Arab Republic, N ...
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South Yemen national football team The South Yemen national football team ( ar, منتخب اليمن الجنوبي الوطني لكرة القدم) was the national team of South Yemen between 1965 and 1989. The team took part in the Asian Cup finals in 1976, losing 0–8 to ...
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South Yemeni dinar The dinar ( ar, دينار) ( ar, مؤسسة النقد للجنوب العربي; sign: £) was the currency of South Arabia and then South Yemen between 1965 and 1990. It was subdivided into 1000 ''fils'' (فلس). After Yemen's monetary uni ...
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Transport in Yemen As a direct consequence of the country's poverty, Yemen compares unfavorably with its Middle Eastern neighbors in terms of transportation infrastructure and communications network. The roads are generally poor, although several projects are planned ...
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United Nations Yemen Observation Mission The UN Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM) was established in 1963. Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, North Yemen entered into a state of North Yemen Civil War, civil war in 1962. Yemen had joined Egypt in 1958, and then in 1962, separated again, spa ...
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Yemen Times The ''Yemen Times'' was an independent English-language newspaper in Yemen. The paper was published twice weekly. History and profile ''Yemen Times'' was founded in 1991 by Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, a leading economist and human rights activist, who ...
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Yemen national football team The Yemen national football team ( ar, منتخب اليمن الوطني لكرة القدم), is the national team of Yemen and is controlled by the Yemen Football Association. When the nation was split into North Yemen and South Yemen befo ...
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Yemeni Congregation for Reform The Yemeni Congregation for Reform, frequently called al-Islah (; ar, التجمع اليمني للإصلاح, at-Tajammu’u al-Yamanī lil-Iṣlāḥ), is a Yemeni Islamist party founded in 1990 by Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, Ali Mohsen ...
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Yemeni buqsha A buqsha or bogache ( ''buqša'') is a former monetary unit of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and the Yemen Arab Republic. 40 buqshas make up one Yemeni rial. The buqsha coin itself is bronze and approximately 27 mm (1 inch) across. Mode ...
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Yemeni rial The rial ( ar, ريال يمني; sign: ﷼; abbreviation: YRl (singular) and YRls (plural) in Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect s ...
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Yemenia Yemenia ( ar, اليمنية) is the flag carrier airline of Yemen, based in Sanaa. It operates scheduled domestic and international passenger flights to destinations in Africa and the Middle East out of its hubs at Aden International Airport, ...
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Ziyadid dynasty The Ziyadid dynasty () was a Muslim dynasty that ruled western Yemen from 819 until 1018 from the capital city of Zabid. It was the first dynastic regime to wield power over the Yemeni lowland after the introduction of Islam in about 630. The ...


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